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On AArch64 you can do a sign-extended load to either a 32-bit or 64-bit
register, and we should only sign extend the register up to the width of
the register as specified in the operation (by using the 32-bit Wn or
64-bit Xn register specifier).
As it turns out, the architecture provides this decoding information in
the SF ("Sixty-Four" -- how cute...) bit.
Let's take advantage of this with the usual 32-bit/64-bit header file
dance and do the right thing on AArch64 hosts.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191212195055.5541-1-christoffer.dall@arm.com
Linux kernel
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