linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Kconfig: add ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR+CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jun 2021 12:10:39 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Bill Wendling <wcw@...gle.com>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
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        x86@...nel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
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        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
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        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Kconfig: add
 ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR+CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR, depend on for GCOV and PGO

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10:05:40AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 04:18:22PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > We don't want compiler instrumentation to touch noinstr functions, which
> > are annotated with the no_profile_instrument_function function
> > attribute. Add a Kconfig test for this and make PGO and GCOV depend on
> > it.
> > 
> > If an architecture is using noinstr, it should denote that via this
> > Kconfig value. That makes Kconfigs that depend on noinstr able to
> > express dependencies in an architecturally agnostic way.
> > 
> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> > Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.ibm.com>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YMTn9yjuemKFLbws@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YMcssV%2Fn5IBGv4f0@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
> > Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> > Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> 
> FWIW, this looks good to me:
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> 
> Catalin, Will, are you happy iwth the arm64 bit?

Looks fine to me.

Will