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a=openpgp; fpr=AC8539A6E8F46702CA4A439B35A3939FFC78776D X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260106_021649_061954_F1791A04 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 14.57 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org The arm64 kernel doesn't boot with annotated branches (PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES) enabled and CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL together. Bisecting it, I found that disabling branch profiling in arch/arm64/mm solved the problem. Narrowing down a bit further, I found that physaddr.c is the file that needs to have branch profiling disabled to get the machine to boot. I suspect that it might invoke some ftrace helper very early in the boot process and ftrace is still not enabled(!?). Rather than playing whack-a-mole with individual files, disable branch profiling for the entire arch/arm64 tree, similar to what x86 already does in arch/x86/Kbuild. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: ec6d06efb0bac ("arm64: Add support for CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao --- Changes in v2: - Expand the scope to arch/arm64 instead of just physaddr.c - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251231-annotated-v1-1-9db1c0d03062@debian.org/ --- arch/arm64/Kbuild | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kbuild b/arch/arm64/Kbuild index 5bfbf7d79c99..d876bc0e5421 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kbuild +++ b/arch/arm64/Kbuild @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only + +# Branch profiling isn't noinstr-safe +subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING) += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING + obj-y += kernel/ mm/ net/ obj-$(CONFIG_KVM) += kvm/ obj-$(CONFIG_XEN) += xen/ --- base-commit: c8ebd433459bcbf068682b09544e830acd7ed222 change-id: 20251231-annotated-75de3f33cd7b Best regards, -- Breno Leitao