linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 01/60] arm64: kernel: Disable latent

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Date:   Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:54:16 +0100
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/60] arm64: kernel: Disable latent_entropy GCC plugin
 in early C runtime

On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 at 11:38, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 03:04:23PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Avoid build issues in the early C code related to the latent_entropy GCC
> > plugin, by incorporating the C flags fragment that disables it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
>
> Just to check, are you seeing issues today? IIUC the plugin only instruments
> functions which are explicitly marked with __latent_entropy, and if we're
> seeing that happen unexpectedly (or due to that being applying to __meminit /
> __init), we might need to do likewise for other noinstr code.
>

I don't quite remember, tbh, but it is unlikely that I would have
written or included this patch without having run into some actual
issue.

> Regardless, for this patch:
>
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
>

Thanks,