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[v2,2/6] riscv: ftrace: align patchable functions to 4 Byte boundary

Message ID 20240628-dev-andyc-dyn-ftrace-v4-v2-2-1e5f4cb1f049@sifive.com (mailing list archive)
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Series riscv: ftrace: atmoic patching and preempt improvements | expand

Commit Message

Andy Chiu June 28, 2024, 11:47 a.m. UTC
We are changing ftrace code patching in order to remove dependency from
stop_machine() and enable kernel preemption. This requires us to align
functions entry at a 4-B align address.

However, -falign-functions on older versions of GCC alone was not strong
enoungh to align all functions. In fact, cold functions are not aligned
after turning on optimizations. We consider this is a bug in GCC and
turn off guess-branch-probility as a workaround to align all functions.

GCC bug id: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345

The option -fmin-function-alignment is able to align all functions
properly on newer versions of gcc. So, we add a cc-option to test if
the toolchain supports it.

Suggested-by: Evgenii Shatokhin <e.shatokhin@yadro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>

---
Changelog v2:
 - Use CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT and it friends to prevent reinventing
    wheels (Nathan)
---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Comments

Björn Töpel Aug. 13, 2024, 11:11 a.m. UTC | #1
Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com> writes:

> We are changing ftrace code patching in order to remove dependency from
> stop_machine() and enable kernel preemption. This requires us to align
> functions entry at a 4-B align address.
>
> However, -falign-functions on older versions of GCC alone was not strong
> enoungh to align all functions. In fact, cold functions are not aligned
> after turning on optimizations. We consider this is a bug in GCC and
> turn off guess-branch-probility as a workaround to align all functions.
>
> GCC bug id: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345
>
> The option -fmin-function-alignment is able to align all functions
> properly on newer versions of gcc. So, we add a cc-option to test if
> the toolchain supports it.
>
> Suggested-by: Evgenii Shatokhin <e.shatokhin@yadro.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>

Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
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diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 704d4683bcfa..55c70efbad0a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@  config RISCV
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
 	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if MMU
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && (CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE || GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
+	select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_4B if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE && RISCV_ISA_C
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
@@ -208,6 +209,7 @@  config CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 config GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	def_bool CC_IS_GCC
 	depends on $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=8)
+	depends on CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT || !RISCV_ISA_C
 
 config HAVE_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
 	def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=shadow-call-stack)