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<title>linux.git/include/linux/compiler.h, branch v5.8-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>compiler.h: Move function attributes to compiler_types.h</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:04:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-21T14:20:46+00:00</published>
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Cleanup and move the KASAN and KCSAN related function attributes to
compiler_types.h, where the rest of the same kind live.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521142047.169334-11-elver@google.com



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Cleanup and move the KASAN and KCSAN related function attributes to
compiler_types.h, where the rest of the same kind live.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521142047.169334-11-elver@google.com



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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler.h: Avoid nested statement expression in data_race()</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:04:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-21T14:20:45+00:00</published>
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It appears that compilers have trouble with nested statement
expressions. Therefore, remove one level of statement expression nesting
from the data_race() macro. This will help avoiding potential problems
in the future as its usage increases.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520221712.GA21166@zn.tnic
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521142047.169334-10-elver@google.com



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It appears that compilers have trouble with nested statement
expressions. Therefore, remove one level of statement expression nesting
from the data_race() macro. This will help avoiding potential problems
in the future as its usage increases.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520221712.GA21166@zn.tnic
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521142047.169334-10-elver@google.com



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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler.h: Remove data_race() and unnecessary checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:04:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-21T14:20:44+00:00</published>
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The volatile accesses no longer need to be wrapped in data_race()
because compilers that emit instrumentation distinguishing volatile
accesses are required for KCSAN.

Consequently, the explicit kcsan_check_atomic*() are no longer required
either since the compiler emits instrumentation distinguishing the
volatile accesses.

Finally, simplify __READ_ONCE_SCALAR() and remove __WRITE_ONCE_SCALAR().

 [ bp: Convert commit message to passive voice. ]

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521142047.169334-9-elver@google.com



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The volatile accesses no longer need to be wrapped in data_race()
because compilers that emit instrumentation distinguishing volatile
accesses are required for KCSAN.

Consequently, the explicit kcsan_check_atomic*() are no longer required
either since the compiler emits instrumentation distinguishing the
volatile accesses.

Finally, simplify __READ_ONCE_SCALAR() and remove __WRITE_ONCE_SCALAR().

 [ bp: Convert commit message to passive voice. ]

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521142047.169334-9-elver@google.com



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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kcsan: Remove 'noinline' from __no_kcsan_or_inline</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-21T14:20:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e3b779d9ebe82b4be0121f25f27632844bb86d96'/>
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Some compilers incorrectly inline small __no_kcsan functions, which then
results in instrumenting the accesses. For this reason, the 'noinline'
attribute was added to __no_kcsan_or_inline. All known versions of GCC
are affected by this. Supported versions of Clang are unaffected, and
never inline a no_sanitize function.

However, the attribute 'noinline' in __no_kcsan_or_inline causes
unexpected code generation in functions that are __no_kcsan and call a
__no_kcsan_or_inline function.

In certain situations it is expected that the __no_kcsan_or_inline
function is actually inlined by the __no_kcsan function, and *no* calls
are emitted. By removing the 'noinline' attribute, give the compiler
the ability to inline and generate the expected code in __no_kcsan
functions.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANpmjNNOpJk0tprXKB_deiNAv_UmmORf1-2uajLhnLWQQ1hvoA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521142047.169334-6-elver@google.com



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Some compilers incorrectly inline small __no_kcsan functions, which then
results in instrumenting the accesses. For this reason, the 'noinline'
attribute was added to __no_kcsan_or_inline. All known versions of GCC
are affected by this. Supported versions of Clang are unaffected, and
never inline a no_sanitize function.

However, the attribute 'noinline' in __no_kcsan_or_inline causes
unexpected code generation in functions that are __no_kcsan and call a
__no_kcsan_or_inline function.

In certain situations it is expected that the __no_kcsan_or_inline
function is actually inlined by the __no_kcsan function, and *no* calls
are emitted. By removing the 'noinline' attribute, give the compiler
the ability to inline and generate the expected code in __no_kcsan
functions.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANpmjNNOpJk0tprXKB_deiNAv_UmmORf1-2uajLhnLWQQ1hvoA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521142047.169334-6-elver@google.com



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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rebase locking/kcsan to locking/urgent</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:02:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-11T18:02:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=37d1a04b13a6d2fec91a6813fc034947a27db034'/>
<id>37d1a04b13a6d2fec91a6813fc034947a27db034</id>
<content type='text'>
Merge the state of the locking kcsan branch before the read/write_once()
and the atomics modifications got merged.

Squash the fallout of the rebase on top of the read/write once and atomic
fallback work into the merge. The history of the original branch is
preserved in tag locking-kcsan-2020-06-02.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Merge the state of the locking kcsan branch before the read/write_once()
and the atomics modifications got merged.

Squash the fallout of the rebase on top of the read/write once and atomic
fallback work into the merge. The history of the original branch is
preserved in tag locking-kcsan-2020-06-02.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'rwonce/rework' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux</title>
<updated>2020-06-10T21:46:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-10T21:46:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4152d146ee2169653297e03b9fa2e0f476923959'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull READ/WRITE_ONCE rework from Will Deacon:
 "This the READ_ONCE rework I've been working on for a while, which
  bumps the minimum GCC version and improves code-gen on arm64 when
  stack protector is enabled"

[ Side note: I'm _really_ tempted to raise the minimum gcc version to
  4.9, so that we can just say that we require _Generic() support.

  That would allow us to more cleanly handle a lot of the cases where we
  depend on very complex macros with 'sizeof' or __builtin_choose_expr()
  with __builtin_types_compatible_p() etc.

  This branch has a workaround for sparse not handling _Generic(),
  either, but that was already fixed in the sparse development branch,
  so it's really just gcc-4.9 that we'd require.   - Linus ]

* 'rwonce/rework' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux:
  compiler_types.h: Use unoptimized __unqual_scalar_typeof for sparse
  compiler_types.h: Optimize __unqual_scalar_typeof compilation time
  compiler.h: Enforce that READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() access size is sizeof(long)
  compiler-types.h: Include naked type in __pick_integer_type() match
  READ_ONCE: Fix comment describing 2x32-bit atomicity
  gcov: Remove old GCC 3.4 support
  arm64: barrier: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for acquire/release macros
  locking/barriers: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for load-acquire macros
  READ_ONCE: Drop pointer qualifiers when reading from scalar types
  READ_ONCE: Enforce atomicity for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() memory accesses
  READ_ONCE: Simplify implementations of {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()
  arm64: csum: Disable KASAN for do_csum()
  fault_inject: Don't rely on "return value" from WRITE_ONCE()
  net: tls: Avoid assigning 'const' pointer to non-const pointer
  netfilter: Avoid assigning 'const' pointer to non-const pointer
  compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8
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Pull READ/WRITE_ONCE rework from Will Deacon:
 "This the READ_ONCE rework I've been working on for a while, which
  bumps the minimum GCC version and improves code-gen on arm64 when
  stack protector is enabled"

[ Side note: I'm _really_ tempted to raise the minimum gcc version to
  4.9, so that we can just say that we require _Generic() support.

  That would allow us to more cleanly handle a lot of the cases where we
  depend on very complex macros with 'sizeof' or __builtin_choose_expr()
  with __builtin_types_compatible_p() etc.

  This branch has a workaround for sparse not handling _Generic(),
  either, but that was already fixed in the sparse development branch,
  so it's really just gcc-4.9 that we'd require.   - Linus ]

* 'rwonce/rework' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux:
  compiler_types.h: Use unoptimized __unqual_scalar_typeof for sparse
  compiler_types.h: Optimize __unqual_scalar_typeof compilation time
  compiler.h: Enforce that READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() access size is sizeof(long)
  compiler-types.h: Include naked type in __pick_integer_type() match
  READ_ONCE: Fix comment describing 2x32-bit atomicity
  gcov: Remove old GCC 3.4 support
  arm64: barrier: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for acquire/release macros
  locking/barriers: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for load-acquire macros
  READ_ONCE: Drop pointer qualifiers when reading from scalar types
  READ_ONCE: Enforce atomicity for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() memory accesses
  READ_ONCE: Simplify implementations of {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()
  arm64: csum: Disable KASAN for do_csum()
  fault_inject: Don't rely on "return value" from WRITE_ONCE()
  net: tls: Avoid assigning 'const' pointer to non-const pointer
  netfilter: Avoid assigning 'const' pointer to non-const pointer
  compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler.h: Enforce that READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() access size is sizeof(long)</title>
<updated>2020-06-05T10:19:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-05T10:19:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b16d8ecf4fa17e16fff20638364f9bd2205615e7'/>
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<content type='text'>
READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() unconditionally performs a sizeof(long)-sized access,
so enforce that the size of the pointed-to object that we are loading
from is the same size as 'long'.

Reported-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() unconditionally performs a sizeof(long)-sized access,
so enforce that the size of the pointed-to object that we are loading
from is the same size as 'long'.

Reported-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>READ_ONCE: Fix comment describing 2x32-bit atomicity</title>
<updated>2020-06-05T10:02:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-11T20:59:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5872f1a2e5c783783d51e96468f0ff6aede61182'/>
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READ_ONCE() permits 64-bit accesses on 32-bit architectures, since this
crops up in a few places and is generally harmless because either the
upper bits are always zero (e.g. for a virtual address or 32-bit time_t)
or the architecture provides 64-bit atomicity anyway.

Update the corresponding comment above compiletime_assert_rwonce_type(),
which incorrectly states that 32-bit x86 provides 64-bit atomicity, and
instead reference 32-bit Armv7 with LPAE.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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READ_ONCE() permits 64-bit accesses on 32-bit architectures, since this
crops up in a few places and is generally harmless because either the
upper bits are always zero (e.g. for a virtual address or 32-bit time_t)
or the architecture provides 64-bit atomicity anyway.

Update the corresponding comment above compiletime_assert_rwonce_type(),
which incorrectly states that 32-bit x86 provides 64-bit atomicity, and
instead reference 32-bit Armv7 with LPAE.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'core-kprobes-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-06-01T19:45:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-01T19:45:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0bd957eb11cfeef23fcc240edde6dfe431731e69'/>
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Pull kprobes updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Various kprobes updates, mostly centered around cleaning up the
  no-instrumentation logic.

  Instead of the current per debug facility blacklist, use the more
  generic .noinstr.text approach, combined with a 'noinstr' marker for
  functions.

  Also add instrumentation_begin()/end() to better manage the exact
  place in entry code where instrumentation may be used.

  And add a kprobes blacklist for modules"

* tag 'core-kprobes-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  kprobes: Prevent probes in .noinstr.text section
  vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation
  samples/kprobes: Add __kprobes and NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() for handlers.
  kprobes: Support NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() in modules
  kprobes: Support __kprobes blacklist in modules
  kprobes: Lock kprobe_mutex while showing kprobe_blacklist
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Pull kprobes updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Various kprobes updates, mostly centered around cleaning up the
  no-instrumentation logic.

  Instead of the current per debug facility blacklist, use the more
  generic .noinstr.text approach, combined with a 'noinstr' marker for
  functions.

  Also add instrumentation_begin()/end() to better manage the exact
  place in entry code where instrumentation may be used.

  And add a kprobes blacklist for modules"

* tag 'core-kprobes-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  kprobes: Prevent probes in .noinstr.text section
  vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation
  samples/kprobes: Add __kprobes and NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() for handlers.
  kprobes: Support NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() in modules
  kprobes: Support __kprobes blacklist in modules
  kprobes: Lock kprobe_mutex while showing kprobe_blacklist
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation</title>
<updated>2020-05-19T13:47:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-09T21:47:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6553896666433e7efec589838b400a2a652b3ffa'/>
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Some code pathes, especially the low level entry code, must be protected
against instrumentation for various reasons:

 - Low level entry code can be a fragile beast, especially on x86.

 - With NO_HZ_FULL RCU state needs to be established before using it.

Having a dedicated section for such code allows to validate with tooling
that no unsafe functions are invoked.

Add the .noinstr.text section and the noinstr attribute to mark
functions. noinstr implies notrace. Kprobes will gain a section check
later.

Provide also a set of markers: instrumentation_begin()/end()

These are used to mark code inside a noinstr function which calls
into regular instrumentable text section as safe.

The instrumentation markers are only active when CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY is
enabled as the end marker emits a NOP to prevent the compiler from merging
the annotation points. This means the objtool verification requires a
kernel compiled with this option.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134100.075416272@linutronix.de
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Some code pathes, especially the low level entry code, must be protected
against instrumentation for various reasons:

 - Low level entry code can be a fragile beast, especially on x86.

 - With NO_HZ_FULL RCU state needs to be established before using it.

Having a dedicated section for such code allows to validate with tooling
that no unsafe functions are invoked.

Add the .noinstr.text section and the noinstr attribute to mark
functions. noinstr implies notrace. Kprobes will gain a section check
later.

Provide also a set of markers: instrumentation_begin()/end()

These are used to mark code inside a noinstr function which calls
into regular instrumentable text section as safe.

The instrumentation markers are only active when CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY is
enabled as the end marker emits a NOP to prevent the compiler from merging
the annotation points. This means the objtool verification requires a
kernel compiled with this option.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134100.075416272@linutronix.de
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