[PATCH v6 1/3] arm64: Add raw variants of local_daif_save() and local_daif_restore()

Puranjay Mohan puranjay at kernel.org
Mon Aug 10 09:46:18 PDT 2026


local_daif_save() unconditionally calls trace_hardirqs_off(), and
local_daif_restore() the matching trace_hardirqs_on(). A caller already
in a hardirqs-off context, or one that must not run tracing code between
masking exceptions and its next step, has no way to opt out.

cpu_suspend() is one such caller and already carries a comment asking for
this. Sampling the BRBE branch record buffer is another: the tracing
calls generate branches that evict the records about to be read.

Split the tracing out into raw_local_daif_save() and
raw_local_daif_restore(), and convert cpu_suspend() to the raw save with
a lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled() for the precondition it now relies on.
Its restore stays traced, to re-arm the irqsoff tracer for the resume
path. The PMR unmasking cpu_suspend() needs is in raw_local_daif_mask(),
so it is unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/daifflags.h | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 arch/arm64/kernel/suspend.c        |  7 ++---
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/daifflags.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/daifflags.h
index 795b351284673..c3adba0985bda 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/daifflags.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/daifflags.h
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@
 #define DAIF_MASK		(PSR_D_BIT | PSR_A_BIT | PSR_I_BIT | PSR_F_BIT)
 
 
-/* mask/save/unmask/restore all exceptions, including interrupts. */
-static __always_inline void local_daif_mask(void)
+static __always_inline void raw_local_daif_mask(void)
 {
 	WARN_ON(system_has_prio_mask_debugging() &&
 		(read_sysreg_s(SYS_ICC_PMR_EL1) == (GIC_PRIO_IRQOFF |
@@ -34,6 +33,12 @@ static __always_inline void local_daif_mask(void)
 	/* Don't really care for a dsb here, we don't intend to enable IRQs */
 	if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking())
 		gic_write_pmr(GIC_PRIO_IRQON | GIC_PRIO_PSR_I_SET);
+}
+
+/* mask/save/unmask/restore all exceptions, including interrupts. */
+static __always_inline void local_daif_mask(void)
+{
+	raw_local_daif_mask();
 
 	trace_hardirqs_off();
 }
@@ -53,18 +58,29 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long local_daif_save_flags(void)
 	return flags;
 }
 
-static __always_inline unsigned long local_daif_save(void)
+static __always_inline unsigned long raw_local_daif_save(void)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	flags = local_daif_save_flags();
 
-	local_daif_mask();
+	raw_local_daif_mask();
 
 	return flags;
 }
 
-static __always_inline void local_daif_restore(unsigned long flags)
+static __always_inline unsigned long local_daif_save(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	flags = raw_local_daif_save();
+
+	trace_hardirqs_off();
+
+	return flags;
+}
+
+static __always_inline void __local_daif_restore(unsigned long flags, bool trace)
 {
 	bool irq_disabled = flags & PSR_I_BIT;
 
@@ -72,7 +88,8 @@ static __always_inline void local_daif_restore(unsigned long flags)
 		(read_sysreg(daif) & (PSR_I_BIT | PSR_F_BIT)) != (PSR_I_BIT | PSR_F_BIT));
 
 	if (!irq_disabled) {
-		trace_hardirqs_on();
+		if (trace)
+			trace_hardirqs_on();
 
 		if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) {
 			gic_write_pmr(GIC_PRIO_IRQON);
@@ -116,10 +133,20 @@ static __always_inline void local_daif_restore(unsigned long flags)
 
 	write_sysreg(flags, daif);
 
-	if (irq_disabled)
+	if (irq_disabled && trace)
 		trace_hardirqs_off();
 }
 
+static __always_inline void local_daif_restore(unsigned long flags)
+{
+	__local_daif_restore(flags, true);
+}
+
+static __always_inline void raw_local_daif_restore(unsigned long flags)
+{
+	__local_daif_restore(flags, false);
+}
+
 /*
  * Called by synchronous exception handlers to restore the DAIF bits that were
  * modified by taking an exception.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/suspend.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/suspend.c
index c41724a40b756..461948ad15ec8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/suspend.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/suspend.c
@@ -117,14 +117,11 @@ int cpu_suspend(unsigned long arg, int (*fn)(unsigned long))
 	 * updates to mdscr register (saved and restored along with
 	 * general purpose registers) from kernel debuggers.
 	 *
-	 * Strictly speaking the trace_hardirqs_off() here is superfluous,
-	 * hardirqs should be firmly off by now. This really ought to use
-	 * something like raw_local_daif_save().
-	 *
 	 * This also unmasks interrupts in PMR in order to reliably
 	 * resume if we're using pseudo-NMIs.
 	 */
-	flags = local_daif_save();
+	lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
+	flags = raw_local_daif_save();
 
 	/*
 	 * Function graph tracer state gets inconsistent when the kernel
-- 
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