Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen: make HYPERVISOR_get_debugreg() always_inline

[Andrew Cooper]

On 25/11/2021 09:20, Juergen Gross wrote:
> HYPERVISOR_get_debugreg() is being called from noinstr code, so it
> should be attributed "always_inline".
>
> Fixes: f4afb713e5c3a4419ba ("x86/xen: Make get_debugreg() noinstr")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h
> index 0575f5863b7f..28ca1119606b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h
> @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ HYPERVISOR_set_debugreg(int reg, unsigned long value)
>  	return _hypercall2(int, set_debugreg, reg, value);
>  }
>  
> -static inline unsigned long
> +static __always_inline unsigned long
>  HYPERVISOR_get_debugreg(int reg)
>  {
>  	return _hypercall1(unsigned long, get_debugreg, reg);

All this is going to do is push the error one step further in.

Next, objtool will complain that hypercall_page isn't noinstr.

~Andrew