From: "tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra" <tip-bot2@linutronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
x86 <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: x86/entry] x86/entry, bug: Comment the instrumentation_begin() usage for WARN()
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:31:42 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <159226030243.16989.1181108519578141239.tip-bot2@tip-bot2> (raw)
The following commit has been merged into the x86/entry branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 8e8bb06d199a5aa7a534aa3b3fc0abbbc11ca438
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/8e8bb06d199a5aa7a534aa3b3fc0abbbc11ca438
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:17:40 +02:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CommitterDate: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:10:10 +02:00
x86/entry, bug: Comment the instrumentation_begin() usage for WARN()
Explain the rationale for annotating WARN(), even though, strictly
speaking printk() and friends are very much not safe in many of the
places we put them.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
index fb34ff6..0281895 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ do { \
unreachable(); \
} while (0)
+/*
+ * This instrumentation_begin() is strictly speaking incorrect; but it
+ * suppresses the complaints from WARN()s in noinstr code. If such a WARN()
+ * were to trigger, we'd rather wreck the machine in an attempt to get the
+ * message out than not know about it.
+ */
#define __WARN_FLAGS(flags) \
do { \
instrumentation_begin(); \
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