[PATCH 2/4] arm64: prevent instrumentation of LL/SC atomics

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Oct 16 06:24:38 PDT 2017


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
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 <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 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
 
 lib-$(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE) += uaccess_flushcache.o
-- 
2.11.0




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