From: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@xxxxxxxxxx> In RISCV, we must use an AUIPC + JALR pair to encode an immediate, forming a jump that jumps to an address over 4K. This may cause errors if we want to enable kernel preemption and remove dependency from patching code with stop_machine(). For example, if a task was switched out on auipc. And, if we changed the ftrace function before it was switched back, then it would jump to an address that has updated 11:0 bits mixing with previous XLEN:12 part. p: patched area performed by dynamic ftrace ftrace_prologue: p| REG_S ra, -SZREG(sp) p| auipc ra, 0x? ------------> preempted ... change ftrace function ... p| jalr -?(ra) <------------- switched back p| REG_L ra, -SZREG(sp) func: xxx ret Fixes: fc76b8b8011 ("riscv: Using PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY instead of MCOUNT") Cc: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx> --- @Andy, could you give the patch a Signed-off-by? I just copy your most important comment, so the first author should be you. First, let's fix the problem caused by my previous patch, and you can continue your ftrace preemption work. --- arch/riscv/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig index ed66c31e4655..b3454c843932 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ config ARCH_RV64I select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER - select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL + select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL && !PREEMPTION select SWIOTLB if MMU endchoice -- 2.36.1