[PATCH v3 09/13] mips: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatch

Huacai Chen chenhuacai at kernel.org
Fri Jul 18 02:18:03 PDT 2025


Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai at loongson.cn>

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM Kees Cook <kees at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> When KCOV is enabled all functions get instrumented, unless
> the __no_sanitize_coverage attribute is used. To prepare for
> __no_sanitize_coverage being applied to __init functions, we
> have to handle differences in how GCC's inline optimizations get
> resolved. For mips this requires adding the __init annotation on
> init_mips_clocksource().
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees at kernel.org>
> ---
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend at alpha.franken.de>
> Cc: <linux-mips at vger.kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/mips/include/asm/time.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/time.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/time.h
> index e855a3611d92..5e7193b759f3 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/time.h
> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/time.h
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static inline int mips_clockevent_init(void)
>   */
>  extern int init_r4k_clocksource(void);
>
> -static inline int init_mips_clocksource(void)
> +static inline __init int init_mips_clocksource(void)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CSRC_R4K
>         return init_r4k_clocksource();
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>



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