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<title>Merge branch 'for-next/entry' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2021-06-24T13:01:55+00:00</updated>
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<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2021-06-24T13:01:55+00:00</published>
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The never-ending entry.S refactoring continues, putting us in a much
better place wrt compiler instrumentation whilst moving more of the code
into C.

* for-next/entry:
  arm64: idle: don't instrument idle code with KCOV
  arm64: entry: don't instrument entry code with KCOV
  arm64: entry: make NMI entry/exit functions static
  arm64: entry: split SDEI entry
  arm64: entry: split bad stack entry
  arm64: entry: fold el1_inv() into el1h_64_sync_handler()
  arm64: entry: handle all vectors with C
  arm64: entry: template the entry asm functions
  arm64: entry: improve bad_mode()
  arm64: entry: move bad_mode() to entry-common.c
  arm64: entry: consolidate EL1 exception returns
  arm64: entry: organise entry vectors consistently
  arm64: entry: organise entry handlers consistently
  arm64: entry: convert IRQ+FIQ handlers to C
  arm64: entry: add a call_on_irq_stack helper
  arm64: entry: move NMI preempt logic to C
  arm64: entry: move arm64_preempt_schedule_irq to entry-common.c
  arm64: entry: convert SError handlers to C
  arm64: entry: unmask IRQ+FIQ after EL0 handling
  arm64: remove redundant local_daif_mask() in bad_mode()
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The never-ending entry.S refactoring continues, putting us in a much
better place wrt compiler instrumentation whilst moving more of the code
into C.

* for-next/entry:
  arm64: idle: don't instrument idle code with KCOV
  arm64: entry: don't instrument entry code with KCOV
  arm64: entry: make NMI entry/exit functions static
  arm64: entry: split SDEI entry
  arm64: entry: split bad stack entry
  arm64: entry: fold el1_inv() into el1h_64_sync_handler()
  arm64: entry: handle all vectors with C
  arm64: entry: template the entry asm functions
  arm64: entry: improve bad_mode()
  arm64: entry: move bad_mode() to entry-common.c
  arm64: entry: consolidate EL1 exception returns
  arm64: entry: organise entry vectors consistently
  arm64: entry: organise entry handlers consistently
  arm64: entry: convert IRQ+FIQ handlers to C
  arm64: entry: add a call_on_irq_stack helper
  arm64: entry: move NMI preempt logic to C
  arm64: entry: move arm64_preempt_schedule_irq to entry-common.c
  arm64: entry: convert SError handlers to C
  arm64: entry: unmask IRQ+FIQ after EL0 handling
  arm64: remove redundant local_daif_mask() in bad_mode()
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<title>arm64: idle: don't instrument idle code with KCOV</title>
<updated>2021-06-07T10:35:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-07T09:46:24+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210607094624.34689-21-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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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 &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210607094624.34689-21-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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