[PATCH v2 10/20] arm64: gpr-num: add __GPR_NUM() helper

Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 18:04:53 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.stable,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The gpr-num infrastructure requires users to concatenate the register
name with a long prefix in order to get a symbol that evaluates to a
compile-time constant. Doing this manually is error-prone and painful to
read.

Add a new __GPR_NUM() helper which wraps the concatenation.

For the moment I've left existing open-coded concatenation as-is. In
particular, the DEFINE_MRS_S() and DEFINE_MSR_S() macros have awkward
stringification requirements and would require invasive changes that
outweigh the benefit. I have plans to rework those in the near future to
remove the need to use gpr-num values.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Ada Couprie Diaz <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: James Morse <[email protected]>
Cc: Jinjie Ruan <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h
index 240cd25d55c5a..30fb8a67b19f0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 	.equ	.L__gpr_num_xzr, 31
 	.equ	.L__gpr_num_wzr, 31
 
+#define __GPR_NUM(gpr)		(.L__gpr_num_##gpr)
+
 #else /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
 
 #define __DEFINE_ASM_GPR_NUMS					\
@@ -26,6 +28,8 @@
 "	wx\\n	.req	w\\n\n"										\
 "	.endr\n"
 
+#define __GPR_NUM(gpr)		"(.L__gpr_num_" gpr ")"
+
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
 
 #endif /* __ASM_GPR_NUM_H */
-- 
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