Re: [RFC PATCH 9/9] arm64/debug: Mark debug exception helpers __always_inline

Masami,


On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:25:48 +0000
Hongyan Xia <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Hongyan Xia <[email protected]>
> 
> Static inline should be enough to actually inline functions for most
> compilers, but my Clang-19 somehow thinks it's better to outline them.
> These tiny helpers then live in normal .text sections instead of
> .noinstr sections, violating noinstr.
> 
> Mark them __always_inline so the compiler can never outline them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hongyan Xia <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h       | 2 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h    | 2 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h   | 4 ++--
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h    | 4 ++--
>  arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 2 +-
>  include/linux/kprobes.h            | 8 ++++----

Are you OK with this patch? If so, can you ack it?

-- Steve

>  6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 

[..]

> diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
> index 8c4f3bb24429..5880445ed0f0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
> @@ -384,17 +384,17 @@ static inline void kprobe_ftrace_kill(void) {}
>  struct kprobe *get_kprobe(void *addr);
>  
>  /* kprobe_running() will just return the current_kprobe on this CPU */
> -static inline struct kprobe *kprobe_running(void)
> +static __always_inline struct kprobe *kprobe_running(void)
>  {
>  	return __this_cpu_read(current_kprobe);
>  }
>  
> -static inline void reset_current_kprobe(void)
> +static __always_inline void reset_current_kprobe(void)
>  {
>  	__this_cpu_write(current_kprobe, NULL);
>  }
>  
> -static inline struct kprobe_ctlblk *get_kprobe_ctlblk(void)
> +static __always_inline struct kprobe_ctlblk *get_kprobe_ctlblk(void)
>  {
>  	return this_cpu_ptr(&kprobe_ctlblk);
>  }
> @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ static inline struct kprobe *get_kprobe(void *addr)
>  {
>  	return NULL;
>  }
> -static inline struct kprobe *kprobe_running(void)
> +static __always_inline struct kprobe *kprobe_running(void)
>  {
>  	return NULL;
>  }