Commit a9be2ee0 authored by Ard Biesheuvel's avatar Ard Biesheuvel Committed by Will Deacon

arm64: head.S: document the use of callee saved registers

Now that the only remaining occurrences of the use of callee saved
registers are on the primary boot path, add a comment to the code
which register is used for what.
Reviewed-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
parent 60699ba1
......@@ -208,6 +208,16 @@ efi_header_end:
__INIT
/*
* The following callee saved general purpose registers are used on the
* primary lowlevel boot path:
*
* Register Scope Purpose
* x21 stext() .. start_kernel() FDT pointer passed at boot in x0
* x23 stext() .. start_kernel() physical misalignment/KASLR offset
* x28 __create_page_tables() callee preserved temp register
* x19/x20 __primary_switch() callee preserved temp registers
*/
ENTRY(stext)
bl preserve_boot_args
bl el2_setup // Drop to EL1, w0=cpu_boot_mode
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