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When CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS=y, each use of an LL/SC atomic results in a fragment of code being generated in a subsection without a clear association with its caller. A trampoline in the caller branches to the LL/SC atomic with with a direct branch, and the atomic directly branches back into its trampoline. This breaks backtracing, as any PC within the out-of-line fragment will be symbolized as an offset from the nearest prior symbol (which may not be the function using the atomic), and since the atomic returns with a direct branch, the caller's PC may be missing from the backtrace. For example, with secondary_start_kernel() hacked to contain atomic_inc(NULL), the resulting exception can be reported as being taken from cpus_are_stuck_in_kernel(): | Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 | Mem abort info: | ESR = 0x0000000096000004 | EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits | SET = 0, FnV = 0 | EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 | FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault | Data abort info: | ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004 | CM = 0, WnR = 0 | [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper | Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP | Modules linked in: | CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.19.0-11219-geb555cb5b794-dirty #3 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) | pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) | pc : cpus_are_stuck_in_kernel+0xa4/0x120 | lr : secondary_start_kernel+0x164/0x170 | sp : ffff80000a4cbe90 | x29: ffff80000a4cbe90 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000 | x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000 | x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: 0000000000000000 | x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 0000000000000001 x18: 0000000000000008 | x17: 3030383832343030 x16: 3030303030307830 x15: ffff80000a4cbab0 | x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 5d31666130663133 x12: 3478305b20313030 | x11: 3030303030303078 x10: 3020726f73736563 x9 : 726f737365636f72 | x8 : ffff800009ff2ef0 x7 : 0000000000000003 x6 : 0000000000000000 | x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000100 | x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff0000029bd880 x0 : 0000000000000000 | Call trace: | cpus_are_stuck_in_kernel+0xa4/0x120 | __secondary_switched+0xb0/0xb4 | Code: 35ffffa3 17fffc6c d53cd040 f9800011 (885f7c01) | ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- This is confusing and hinders debugging, and will be problematic for CONFIG_LIVEPATCH as these cases cannot be unwound reliably. This is very similar to recent issues with out-of-line exception fixups, which were removed in commits: |
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.