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aarch64: Clarify the initial adjustments to sp for kernel exception entry
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Authored by jhb on Sep 13 2025, 5:05 PM.
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Summary

The first store-pair instruction in save_registers_head decrements the
stack pointer to create room for most of the trapframe (and the
redzone area for nested exceptions). However, the expression was a
bit non-intuitive as it was using an expression without a leading
negative sign to adjust the stack pointer. Rewrite the expression so
that it is more clearly a negative adjustment to the stack pointer.

Suggested by: andrew
Sponsored by: AFRL, DARPA

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jhb requested review of this revision.Sep 13 2025, 5:05 PM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 13 2025, 6:34 PM