From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:03:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] arm64: prevent instrumentation of LL/SC atomics In-Reply-To: <20171016132440.38098-3-mark.rutland@arm.com> References: <20171016132440.38098-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> <20171016132440.38098-3-mark.rutland@arm.com> Message-ID: <20171017100315.GA22140@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 02:24:38PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > While we build the LL/SC atomics as a C object file, this does not > follow the AAPCS. This does not interoperate with other C code, and can > only be called from special wrapper assembly. > > Bulding a kernel with CONFIG_KCOV and CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS results > in the cmopiler inserting calls to __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc within the cmopiler > LL/SC atomics. As __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc is built per the AAPCS, these > calls corrupt register values, resulting in failures at boot time. > > Avoid this (and other similar issues) by opting out of all compiler > instrumentation. We can opt-in to specific instrumentation in future if > we want to. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland > Cc: Catalin Marinas > Cc: Will Deacon > --- > arch/arm64/lib/Makefile | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile b/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile > index a0abc142c92b..af77516f71b2 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile > +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile > @@ -17,5 +17,6 @@ CFLAGS_atomic_ll_sc.o := -fcall-used-x0 -ffixed-x1 -ffixed-x2 \ > -fcall-saved-x10 -fcall-saved-x11 -fcall-saved-x12 \ > -fcall-saved-x13 -fcall-saved-x14 -fcall-saved-x15 \ > -fcall-saved-x18 > +CC_INSTRUMENT_atomic_ll_sc.o := n Does this mean we can lose the "notrace" definition of __LL_SC_INLINE when generating the out-of-line atomics? Will