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authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>2026-04-21 18:58:57 +0300
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2026-04-27 15:13:36 +0300
commitcaecde119e341acd9819cbc1c54edf6caa6c6389 (patch)
tree25a7f701570cdd7b11da319176b701a590badd73
parent4023b7424ecd5d38cc75b650d6c1bf630ef8cb40 (diff)
downloadlinux-caecde119e341acd9819cbc1c54edf6caa6c6389.tar.xz
arm64/irqflags: __always_inline the arch_local_irq_*() helpers
The arch_local_irq_*() wrappers in <asm/irqflags.h> dispatch between two underlying primitives: the __daif_* path on most systems, and the __pmr_* path on builds that use GIC PMR-based masking (Pseudo-NMI). The leaf primitives are already __always_inline, but the wrappers themselves are plain "static inline". That is unsafe for noinstr callers: nothing prevents the compiler from emitting an out-of-line copy of e.g. arch_local_irq_disable(), and an out-of-line copy can be instrumented (ftrace, kcov, sanitizers), which breaks the noinstr contract on the entry/idle paths that rely on these helpers. x86 hit and fixed exactly this class of bug in commit 7a745be1cc90 ("x86/entry: __always_inline irqflags for noinstr"). Force-inline all of the arch_local_irq_*() wrappers so they cannot be emitted out-of-line: - arch_local_irq_enable() - arch_local_irq_disable() - arch_local_save_flags() - arch_irqs_disabled_flags() - arch_irqs_disabled() - arch_local_irq_save() - arch_local_irq_restore() The primary motivation is noinstr safety. There is a useful side effect for fleet-wide profiling: when the wrapper is emitted out-of-line, samples taken inside it during the post-WFI IRQ unmask in default_idle_call() are attributed to arch_local_irq_enable rather than default_idle_call(), and the FP-unwinder loses default_idle_call() from the chain. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Leonardo Bras <leo.bras@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h
index d4d7451c2c12..a8cb5a5c93b7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static __always_inline void __pmr_local_irq_enable(void)
barrier();
}
-static inline void arch_local_irq_enable(void)
+static __always_inline void arch_local_irq_enable(void)
{
if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) {
__pmr_local_irq_enable();
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static __always_inline void __pmr_local_irq_disable(void)
barrier();
}
-static inline void arch_local_irq_disable(void)
+static __always_inline void arch_local_irq_disable(void)
{
if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) {
__pmr_local_irq_disable();
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long __pmr_local_save_flags(void)
/*
* Save the current interrupt enable state.
*/
-static inline unsigned long arch_local_save_flags(void)
+static __always_inline unsigned long arch_local_save_flags(void)
{
if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) {
return __pmr_local_save_flags();
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static __always_inline bool __pmr_irqs_disabled_flags(unsigned long flags)
return flags != GIC_PRIO_IRQON;
}
-static inline bool arch_irqs_disabled_flags(unsigned long flags)
+static __always_inline bool arch_irqs_disabled_flags(unsigned long flags)
{
if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) {
return __pmr_irqs_disabled_flags(flags);
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static __always_inline bool __pmr_irqs_disabled(void)
return __pmr_irqs_disabled_flags(__pmr_local_save_flags());
}
-static inline bool arch_irqs_disabled(void)
+static __always_inline bool arch_irqs_disabled(void)
{
if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) {
return __pmr_irqs_disabled();
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long __pmr_local_irq_save(void)
return flags;
}
-static inline unsigned long arch_local_irq_save(void)
+static __always_inline unsigned long arch_local_irq_save(void)
{
if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) {
return __pmr_local_irq_save();
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static __always_inline void __pmr_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags)
/*
* restore saved IRQ state
*/
-static inline void arch_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags)
+static __always_inline void arch_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags)
{
if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) {
__pmr_local_irq_restore(flags);