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Add a bl_r macro that abstract the difference between the ways indirect calls are performed on older and newer ARM architecture revisions. The main difference is to prefer blx instructions over explicit LR assignments when possible, as these tend to confuse the prediction logic in out-of-order cores when speculating across a function return. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Tested-by: Keith Packard <keithpac@amazon.com> Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> # ARMv7M
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