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Our out-of-line atomics are built with a special calling convention, preventing pointless stack spilling, and allowing us to patch call sites with ARMv8.1 atomic instructions. Instrumentation inserted by the compiler may result in calls to functions not following this special calling convention, resulting in registers being unexpectedly clobbered, and various problems resulting from this. For example, if a kernel is built with KCOV and ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS, the compiler inserts calls to __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc in the prologues of the atomic functions. This has been observed to result in spurious cmpxchg failures, leading to a hang early on in the boot process. This patch avoids such issues by preventing instrumentation of our out-of-line atomics. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.