[android-common:android16-6.12-2025-09 2/2] arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/clock.c:38:1: warning: 'patchable_function_entry' attribute directive ignored

[android-common:android16-6.12-2025-09 2/2] arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/clock.c:38:1: warning: 'patchable_function_entry' attribute directive ignored

[kernel test robot]

Hi Vincent,

FYI, the error/warning still remains.

tree:   https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common android16-6.12-2025-09
head:   98d5b9e071f1828ec75981d3758cc20c452616a3
commit: e77aff67170b3289f944fb39f1e81b2ff8a5e40a [2/2] ANDROID: KVM: arm64: Nop padding for ftrace support in the pKVM hyp
config: arm64-randconfig-r072-20260904 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260905/202609050857.HIrRj7SU-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: aarch64-linux-gcc (GCC) 7.5.0
smatch: v0.5.0-9187-g5189e3fb
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260905/202609050857.HIrRj7SU-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202609050857.HIrRj7SU-lkp@intel.com/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/clock.c:38:1: warning: 'patchable_function_entry' attribute directive ignored [-Wattributes]
    {
    ^


vim +/patchable_function_entry +38 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/clock.c

97c14dba6f9623 Vincent Donnefort 2024-09-11  35  
97c14dba6f9623 Vincent Donnefort 2024-09-11  36  /* Using host provided data. Do not use for anything else than debugging. */
e77aff67170b32 Vincent Donnefort 2024-10-01  37  u64 __attribute__((patchable_function_entry(0, 0))) trace_clock(void)
97c14dba6f9623 Vincent Donnefort 2024-09-11 @38  {

:::::: The code at line 38 was first introduced by commit
:::::: 97c14dba6f96234c7120802f9d727a4ccfd17367 FROMLIST: KVM: arm64: Add clock support in the nVHE hyp

:::::: TO: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
:::::: CC: Keir Fraser <keirf@google.com>

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