[RFC PATCH v2 1/4] arm64/entry: Make debug_exception_enter/exit() noinstr
Hongyan Xia
hongyan.xia at transsion.com
Wed Aug 12 23:49:27 PDT 2026
From: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia at transsion.com>
Commit 879a6754d3d11e30af24b7dc486f561510d62641 ran into a crash because
debug_exception_enter/exit() triggered page faults caused by perf dwarf
call graph tracing. That patch was a band-aid on top.
Instead of trying to band-aid all possible paths that can happen during
instrumentation or perf tracing, simply force-inline these functions and
use the notrace variant of preempt handling to avoid all the complexity.
Drop the RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(): arm64_enter_el1_dbg() runs first and
enters NMI context via ct_nmi_enter(), so RCU is always watching by the
time debug_exception_enter() runs.
Also mark __preempt_count_add/sub() __always_inline so the preempt
count updates fold into the noinstr callers instead of becoming
outlined calls to instrumentable text.
Signed-off-by: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia at transsion.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h | 4 ++--
arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c | 13 ++++---------
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
index 932ea4b62042..326f221c3f56 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
@@ -41,14 +41,14 @@ static inline bool test_preempt_need_resched(void)
return !current_thread_info()->preempt.need_resched;
}
-static inline void __preempt_count_add(int val)
+static __always_inline void __preempt_count_add(int val)
{
u32 pc = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count);
pc += val;
WRITE_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count, pc);
}
-static inline void __preempt_count_sub(int val)
+static __always_inline void __preempt_count_sub(int val)
{
u32 pc = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count);
pc -= val;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
index ceb4eb11232a..d5c1d6defe29 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
@@ -292,20 +292,15 @@ static __always_inline void fpsimd_syscall_exit(void)
* accidentally schedule in exception context and it will force a warning
* if we somehow manage to schedule by accident.
*/
-static void debug_exception_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
+static __always_inline void debug_exception_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- preempt_disable();
-
- /* This code is a bit fragile. Test it. */
- RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_is_watching(), "exception_enter didn't work");
+ preempt_disable_notrace();
}
-NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(debug_exception_enter);
-static void debug_exception_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
+static __always_inline void debug_exception_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- preempt_enable_no_resched();
+ preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
}
-NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(debug_exception_exit);
UNHANDLED(el1t, 64, sync)
UNHANDLED(el1t, 64, irq)
--
2.47.3
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