Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] hrtimer: Pause KCOV during deferred rearm

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.linux-rt-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 05:41:08PM +0200, Karl Mehltretter wrote:
> Deferred hrtimer rearm can run after HARDIRQ_OFFSET is dropped. in_task()
> is then true, so KCOV attributes the instrumented timer-reprogramming
> subtree to current.

But that is clearly noinstr code; there should be no kcov calls in
there.

If kcov is emitted inside noinstr, then kcov is a broken piece of crap
and needs to die.

NAK
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