[PATCH] riscv: Gate FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Rui Qi
qirui.001 at bytedance.com
Mon Jul 6 06:04:14 PDT 2026
The FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B select forces the whole kernel to be built
with -fmin-function-alignment=4. This alignment is only needed so the
patchable-function-entry NOPs, which arch/riscv/Makefile emits under
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE, can be patched reliably on RISCV_ISA_C=y builds
where compressed instructions otherwise allow 2-byte function
alignment.
The select is currently gated on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE, a capability bit
that is selected whenever the toolchain supports dynamic ftrace, rather
than on whether tracing is actually enabled. As a result every
RISCV_ISA_C=y build gets 4-byte function alignment across the entire
kernel even when function tracing is disabled, needlessly growing the
kernel image and wasting instruction cache for a feature that is not
in use.
Gate the select on DYNAMIC_FTRACE instead, matching the condition under
which arch/riscv/Makefile emits -fpatchable-function-entry, so the
alignment is only applied when it is actually needed.
Fixes: c41bf4326c7b ("riscv: ftrace: align patchable functions to 4 Byte boundary")
Signed-off-by: Rui Qi <qirui.001 at bytedance.com>
---
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 66638fc9ba43..0c00f6aa715a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ config RISCV
select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if MMU
select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if MMU && (CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE || GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
- select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE && RISCV_ISA_C
+ select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B if DYNAMIC_FTRACE && RISCV_ISA_C
select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS if (DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS && !CFI)
select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
--
2.20.1
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