Commit 256d97d3 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Russell King (Oracle)
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ARM: 9459/1: Disable jump-label on PREEMPT_RT



jump-labels are used to efficiently switch between two possible code
paths. To achieve this, stop_machine() is used to keep the CPU in a
known state while the opcode is modified. The usage of stop_machine()
here leads to large latency spikes which can be observed on PREEMPT_RT.

Jump labels may change the target during runtime and are not restricted
to debug or "configuration/ setup" part of a PREEMPT_RT system where
high latencies could be defined as acceptable.

On 64-bit Arm, it is possible to use jump labels without the
stop_machine() call, which architecturally provides a way to atomically
change one 32-bit instruction word while keeping maintaining consistency,
but this is not generally the case on 32-bit, in particular in thumb2
mode.

Disable jump-label support on a PREEMPT_RT system when SMP is enabled.

[bigeasy: Patch description.]
[arnd: add !SMP case, extend changelog]

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
parent 3a866087
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@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ config ARM
	select HAS_IOPORT
	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL if AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT
	select HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE if (CPU_32v7M || CPU_32v7) && !CPU_32v6
	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL if !XIP_KERNEL && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU
	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL if !XIP_KERNEL && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU && (!PREEMPT_RT || !SMP)
	select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE if MMU && !XIP_KERNEL
	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU
	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if MMU && !XIP_KERNEL