Later commits will cause objtool to warn about non __ro_after_init static keys being used in .noinstr sections in order to safely defer instruction patching IPIs targeted at NOHZ_FULL CPUs. mds_idle_clear is used in .noinstr code, and can be modified at runtime (SMT hotplug). Suppressing the text_poke_sync() IPI has little benefits for this key, as hotplug implies eventually going through takedown_cpu() -> stop_machine_cpuslocked() which is going to cause interference on all online CPUs anyway. Mark it as forceful to let the kernel know to always send the text_poke_sync() IPI for it, and to let objtool know not to warn about it. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index 47a01d4028f60..dcc4d5d6e3b95 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(switch_mm_cond_ibpb); DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(switch_mm_always_ibpb); /* Control MDS CPU buffer clear before idling (halt, mwait) */ -DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(mds_idle_clear); +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE_FORCE(mds_idle_clear); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mds_idle_clear); /* -- 2.43.0
