[PATCH] powerpc: Don't select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR

Subsystems: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest

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2 messages, 2 authors, 2023-02-02 · open the first message on its own page

[PATCH] powerpc: Don't select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2023-02-02 12:19:27

Commit 41b7a347bf14 ("powerpc: Book3S 64-bit outline-only KASAN
support") added a select of ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR, because it also added
some uses of noinstr. However noinstr is always defined, regardless of
ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR, so there's no need to select it just for that.

As PeterZ says [1]:
  Note that by selecting ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR you effectively state to
  abide by its rules.

As of now the powerpc code does not abide by those rules, and trips some
new warnings added by Peter in linux-next.

So until the code can be fixed to avoid those warnings, disable
ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR.

Note that ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR is also used to gate building KCOV and
parts of KCSAN. However none of the noinstr annotations in powerpc were
added for KCOV or KCSAN, instead instrumentation is blocked at the file
level using KCOV_INSTRUMENT_foo.o := n.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/Y9t6yoafrO5YqVgM@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <redacted>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index b8c4ac56bddc..7a5f8dbfbdd0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ config PPC
 	select ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM
 	select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
 	select ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC	if PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_8xx
-	select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
 	select ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
 	select BINFMT_ELF
 	select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
-- 
2.39.1

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Don't select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR

From: Sachin Sant <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-02 13:54:50

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <redacted>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
Thanks for the patch Michael. 

Tested-by: Sachin Sant <redacted>
quoted hunk
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index b8c4ac56bddc..7a5f8dbfbdd0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ config PPC
select ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM
select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
select ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC if PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_8xx
- select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
select ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
select BINFMT_ELF
select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
-- 
2.39.1

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