The arm64 kernel doesn't boot with annotated branches
(PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES) enabled and CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL together.
Bisecting it, I found that disabling branch profiling in arch/arm64/mm
solved the problem. Narrowing down a bit further, I found that
physaddr.c is the file that needs to have branch profiling disabled to
get the machine to boot.
I suspect that it might invoke some ftrace helper very early in the boot
process and ftrace is still not enabled(!?).
Rather than playing whack-a-mole with individual files, disable branch
profiling for the entire arch/arm64 tree, similar to what x86 already
does in arch/x86/Kbuild.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+# Branch profiling isn't noinstr-safe
+subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING) += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
+
obj-y += kernel/ mm/ net/
obj-$(CONFIG_KVM) += kvm/
obj-$(CONFIG_XEN) += xen/