The patch titled Subject: kcov: avoid enable+disable interrupts if !in_task() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kcov-avoid-enabledisable-interrupts-if-in_task.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kcov-avoid-enabledisable-interrupts-if-in_task.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kcov-avoid-enabledisable-interrupts-if-in_task.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kcov: avoid enable+disable interrupts if !in_task() kcov_remote_start() may need to allocate memory in the in_task() case (otherwise per-CPU memory has been pre-allocated) and therefore requires enabled interrupts. The interrupts are enabled before checking if the allocation is required so if no allocation is required then the interrupts are needlessly enabled and disabled again. Enable interrupts only if memory allocation is performed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923164741.1859522-5-bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210830172627.267989-5-bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kcov.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/kcov.c~kcov-avoid-enabledisable-interrupts-if-in_task +++ a/kernel/kcov.c @@ -869,19 +869,19 @@ void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle) size = CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE; area = this_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data)->irq_area; } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock); /* Can only happen when in_task(). */ if (!area) { + local_irqrestore(flags); area = vmalloc(size * sizeof(unsigned long)); if (!area) { kcov_put(kcov); return; } + local_irq_save(flags); } - local_irq_save(flags); - /* Reset coverage size. */ *(u64 *)area = 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-disable-zsmalloc-on-preempt_rt.patch documentation-kcov-include-typesh-in-the-example.patch documentation-kcov-define-ip-in-the-example.patch kcov-allocate-per-cpu-memory-on-the-relevant-node.patch kcov-avoid-enabledisable-interrupts-if-in_task.patch kcov-replace-local_irq_save-with-a-local_lock_t.patch