arm64: kvm: stop treating register x18 as caller save

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In preparation of reserving x18, stop treating it as caller save in
the KVM guest entry/exit code. Currently, the code assumes there is
no need to preserve it for the host, given that it would have been
assumed clobbered anyway by the function call to __guest_enter().
Instead, preserve its value and restore it upon return.

Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9836891/
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
[Sami: updated commit message, switched from x18 to x29 for the guest context]
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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Ard Biesheuvel 2019-12-06 14:13:39 -08:00 • committed by Will Deacon

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