[PATCH] riscv: code patching only works on !XIP_KERNEL

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at dabbelt.com
Sat May 22 10:15:32 PDT 2021


On Mon, 10 May 2021 11:19:30 PDT (-0700), vitaly.wool at konsulko.com wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:35 PM Jisheng Zhang <jszhang3 at mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
>>
>> From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
>>
>> Some features which need code patching such as KPROBES, DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>> KGDB can only work on !XIP_KERNEL. Add dependencies for these features
>> that rely on code patching.
>
> Since we can define extra RW sections to place some tiny code bits in
> RAM, I would suggest that you hold back this patch for a while.
> I am not going to support the idea of e. g. compiling KGDB support
> into a XIP kernel, but disabling the whole HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL is
> hardly the way to go.

Do you have any updates on this?  The SOC_SIFIVE disable thread floated 
back to the top of my inbox and I didn't see anything there.  I'd prefer 
to avoid chasing around Kconfig disables for a bunch of stuff that we're 
just going to fix soon, but if this is going to be a big change then 
it's likely for next cycle anyway so in that case I'll start picking up 
these compile disable patches.

Not trying to rush any thing here, just don't want to have a bunch of 
broken configs.

>
> Best regards,
>    Vitaly
>
>> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
>> ---
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently, the RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE also only works on !XIP_KERNEL
>> but from the maillist it seem there's effort to make the co-exist, so
>> I drop RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE dependency on !XIP_KERNEL.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>  arch/riscv/Kconfig | 18 +++++++++---------
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
>> index a8ad8eb76120..61320b94ef97 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
>> @@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ config RISCV
>>         select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL if MMU && 64BIT
>>         select HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ
>>         select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
>> -       select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
>> -       select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
>> +       select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL if !XIP_KERNEL
>> +       select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE if !XIP_KERNEL
>>         select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if MMU && 64BIT
>>         select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC if MMU && 64BIT
>> -       select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
>> +       select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !XIP_KERNEL
>>         select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_QXFER_PKT
>>         select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU
>>         select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
>> @@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ config RISCV
>>         select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
>>         select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO if MMU && 64BIT
>>         select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
>> -       select HAVE_KPROBES
>> -       select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
>> -       select HAVE_KRETPROBES
>> +       select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
>> +       select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
>> +       select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
>>         select HAVE_PCI
>>         select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
>>         select HAVE_PERF_REGS
>> @@ -230,11 +230,11 @@ config ARCH_RV64I
>>         bool "RV64I"
>>         select 64BIT
>>         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128 && GCC_VERSION >= 50000
>> -       select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if MMU && $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=8)
>> +       select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=8)
>>         select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>> -       select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
>> +       select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
>>         select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
>> -       select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
>> +       select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL
>>         select SWIOTLB if MMU
>>
>>  endchoice
>> --
>> 2.31.0
>>
>>
>>
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