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| author | Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> | 2026-04-21 08:58:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2026-04-27 13:13:36 +0100 |
| commit | caecde119e341acd9819cbc1c54edf6caa6c6389 (patch) | |
| tree | 25a7f701570cdd7b11da319176b701a590badd73 /scripts/dummy-tools/python3 | |
| parent | 4023b7424ecd5d38cc75b650d6c1bf630ef8cb40 (diff) | |
arm64/irqflags: __always_inline the arch_local_irq_*() helpers
The arch_local_irq_*() wrappers in <asm/irqflags.h> dispatch between two
underlying primitives: the __daif_* path on most systems, and the
__pmr_* path on builds that use GIC PMR-based masking (Pseudo-NMI). The
leaf primitives are already __always_inline, but the wrappers themselves
are plain "static inline".
That is unsafe for noinstr callers: nothing prevents the compiler from
emitting an out-of-line copy of e.g. arch_local_irq_disable(), and an
out-of-line copy can be instrumented (ftrace, kcov, sanitizers), which
breaks the noinstr contract on the entry/idle paths that rely on these
helpers.
x86 hit and fixed exactly this class of bug in commit 7a745be1cc90
("x86/entry: __always_inline irqflags for noinstr").
Force-inline all of the arch_local_irq_*() wrappers so they cannot be
emitted out-of-line:
- arch_local_irq_enable()
- arch_local_irq_disable()
- arch_local_save_flags()
- arch_irqs_disabled_flags()
- arch_irqs_disabled()
- arch_local_irq_save()
- arch_local_irq_restore()
The primary motivation is noinstr safety. There is a useful side effect
for fleet-wide profiling: when the wrapper is emitted out-of-line,
samples taken inside it during the post-WFI IRQ unmask in
default_idle_call() are attributed to arch_local_irq_enable rather than
default_idle_call(), and the FP-unwinder loses default_idle_call() from
the chain.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Leonardo Bras <leo.bras@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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