Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 9 authors, 2021-06-22

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Kconfig: CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR, depend on for GCOV and PGO

From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Date: 2021-06-19 06:23:52
Also in: linux-kbuild, linux-toolchains, lkml

On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 at 01:30, Nick Desaulniers [off-list ref] wrote:
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We don't want compiler instrumentation to touch noinstr functions, which
are annotated with the no_profile function attribute. Add a Kconfig test
for this and make PGO and GCOV depend on it.

Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YMTn9yjuemKFLbws@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/ (local)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YMcssV%2Fn5IBGv4f0@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/ (local)
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <redacted>
---
 init/Kconfig        | 3 +++
 kernel/gcov/Kconfig | 1 +
 kernel/pgo/Kconfig  | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 1ea12c64e4c9..540f862b40c6 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
 config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
        def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)

+config CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR
+       def_bool $(success,echo '__attribute__((no_profile)) int x();' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror)
+
 config CONSTRUCTORS
        bool
diff --git a/kernel/gcov/Kconfig b/kernel/gcov/Kconfig
index 58f87a3092f3..19facd4289cd 100644
--- a/kernel/gcov/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/gcov/Kconfig
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ config GCOV_KERNEL
        bool "Enable gcov-based kernel profiling"
        depends on DEBUG_FS
        depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 110000
+       depends on !X86 || (X86 && CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR)
[+Cc Mark]

arm64 is also starting to rely on noinstr working properly.

This should probably be a 'select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL if
CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR' in the relevant arch/../Kconfig.

Alternatively, using:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMcssV/n5IBGv4f0@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

But I'd probably not overcomplicate things at this point and just use
ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL, because GCOV seems to be a) rarely used,
and b) if someone decides to selectively instrument stuff like entry
code, we can just say it's user error.

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        select CONSTRUCTORS
        default n
        help
diff --git a/kernel/pgo/Kconfig b/kernel/pgo/Kconfig
index d2053df1111c..26f75ac4c6c1 100644
--- a/kernel/pgo/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/pgo/Kconfig
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ config PGO_CLANG
        bool "Enable clang's PGO-based kernel profiling"
        depends on DEBUG_FS
        depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PGO_CLANG
-       depends on CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 120000
+       depends on CC_IS_CLANG
+       depends on CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR
        help
          This option enables clang's PGO (Profile Guided Optimization) based
          code profiling to better optimize the kernel.
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2.32.0.288.g62a8d224e6-goog
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