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authorMark Rutland <[email protected]>2021-06-07 10:46:24 +0100
committerWill Deacon <[email protected]>2021-06-07 11:35:56 +0100
commitb5df5b8307b1db6d168ffac29eff3974779bb34b (patch)
tree253bdd58b56ea3a2066dabccbb05536620336996 /arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
parentbf6fa2c0dda751863c3446aa64d733013bec4a19 (diff)
arm64: idle: don't instrument idle code with KCOV
The low-level idle code in arch_cpu_idle() and its callees runs at a time where where portions of the kernel environment aren't available. For example, RCU may not be watching, and lockdep state may be out-of-sync with the hardware. Due to this, it is not sound to instrument this code. We generally avoid instrumentation by marking the entry functions as `noinstr`, but currently this doesn't inhibit KCOV instrumentation. Prevent this by factoring these functions into a new idle.c so that we can disable KCOV for the entire compilation unit, as is done for the core idle code in kernel/sched/idle.c. We'd like to keep instrumentation of the rest of process.c, and for the existing code in cpuidle.c, so a new compilation unit is preferable. The arch_cpu_idle_dead() function in process.c is a cpu hotplug function that is safe to instrument, so it is left as-is in process.c. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]> Cc: James Morse <[email protected]> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
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