Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 5 authors, 2020-02-24

Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: Ask the compiler to __always_inline functions used by KVM at HYP

From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-02-21 12:55:35
Also in: kvmarm

Hi James,

On 2020-02-20 16:58, James Morse wrote:
Hello!

It turns out KVM relies on the inline hint being honoured by the 
compiler
in quite a few more places than expected. Something about the Shadow 
Call
Stack support[0] causes the compiler to avoid inline-ing and to place
these functions outside the __hyp_text. This ruins KVM's day.

Add the simon-says __always_inline annotation to all the static
inlines that KVM calls from HYP code.

This series based on v5.6-rc2.
Many thanks for going through all this.

I'm happy to take it if Catalin or Will ack the arm64 patches.
It case we decide to go the other way around:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

One thing I'd like to look into though is a compile-time check that
nothing in the hyp_text section has a reference to a non-hyp_text
symbol.

We already have checks around non-init symbols pointing to init symbols,
and I was wondering if we could reuse this for fun and profit...

Thanks,

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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