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arm64: Disable branch profiling for all arm64 code
authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:16:35 +0000 (02:16 -0800)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2026 21:46:01 +0000 (21:46 +0000)
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>
arch/arm64/Kbuild

index 5bfbf7d79c99bec11d19b3551600318af2c07023..d876bc0e542110f9e340ec458e5d3ad33f139e0f 100644 (file)
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 # 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/