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Message-ID: <c3c5e7fd-eae8-bfc8-6a30-ca6d01a933bc@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Mar 2022 08:32:32 +0800
From:   "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Cc:     kbuild-all@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [kbuild-all] Re: [tip:locking/core 4/5] vmlinux.o: warning:
 objtool: do_machine_check()+0x419: call to mca_msr_reg() leaves .noinstr.text
 section



On 3/14/2022 8:01 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 07:40:08PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git locking/core
>> head:   cd27ccfc727e99352321c0c75012ab9c5a90321e
>> commit: acb13ea0baf8db8d05a3910c06e997c90825faad [4/5] asm-generic/bitops: Always inline all bit manipulation helpers
>> config: x86_64-randconfig-a005-20220314 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220314/202203141947.9KhIyyR7-lkp@intel.com/config)
>> compiler: gcc-9 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04) 9.4.0
>> reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
>>          # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=acb13ea0baf8db8d05a3910c06e997c90825faad
>>          git remote add tip https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git
>>          git fetch --no-tags tip locking/core
>>          git checkout acb13ea0baf8db8d05a3910c06e997c90825faad
>>          # save the config file to linux build tree
>>          mkdir build_dir
>>          make W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash
>>
>> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
>>
>> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>>
>>     vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: mce_read_aux()+0x42: call to mca_msr_reg() leaves .noinstr.text section
>>>> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_machine_check()+0x419: call to mca_msr_reg() leaves .noinstr.text section
>>     vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: enter_from_user_mode()+0x4a: call to on_thread_stack() leaves .noinstr.text section
>>     vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: syscall_enter_from_user_mode()+0x53: call to on_thread_stack() leaves .noinstr.text section
>>     vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: syscall_enter_from_user_mode_prepare()+0x4a: call to on_thread_stack() leaves .noinstr.text section
>>     vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: irqentry_enter_from_user_mode()+0x4a: call to on_thread_stack() leaves .noinstr.text section
> 
> You need to test tip/ras/core with that .config - not some random
> patches inside of locking/core. Fixing the noinstr issues is split into
> a couple of patches in locking/core and ras/core.
> 
> Thx.
> 

Hi Borislav,

Thanks for the explanation, should we skip testing the locking/core 
branch next time?

Best Regards,
Rong Chen