This register holds "pstate" which includes (among other things) the instruction mode the CPU was in when the exception was taken. This is necessary to correctly interpret instructions at elr.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.ander...@seco.com> --- Changes in v3: - Fix loading the wrong EL's SPSR Changes in v2: - New arch/arm/cpu/armv8/exceptions.S | 5 ++++- arch/arm/include/asm/proc-armv/ptrace.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/exceptions.S b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/exceptions.S index 001913f429..504d566721 100644 --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/exceptions.S +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/exceptions.S @@ -77,15 +77,18 @@ _save_el_regs: switch_el x11, 3f, 2f, 1f 3: mrs x1, esr_el3 mrs x2, elr_el3 + mrs x3, spsr_el3 b 0f 2: mrs x1, esr_el2 mrs x2, elr_el2 + mrs x3, spsr_el2 b 0f 1: mrs x1, esr_el1 mrs x2, elr_el1 + mrs x3, spsr_el1 0: stp x1, x0, [sp, #-16]! - stp xzr, x2, [sp, #-16]! + stp x3, x2, [sp, #-16]! mov x0, sp ret diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-armv/ptrace.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-armv/ptrace.h index bebcaf6e33..3b8fe7aac0 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-armv/ptrace.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-armv/ptrace.h @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ * on the stack during an exception. */ struct pt_regs { - unsigned long unused; + unsigned long spsr; unsigned long elr; unsigned long esr; unsigned long regs[31]; -- 2.25.1