[PATCH 6.19 558/844] arm64: Disable branch profiling for all arm64 code
From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sat Feb 28 2026 - 15:35:20 EST
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit f22c81bebf8bda6e54dc132df0ed54f6bf8756f9 ]
The arm64 kernel doesn't boot with annotated branches
(PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES) enabled and CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL together.
Bisecting it, I found that disabling branch profiling in arch/arm64/mm
solved the problem. Narrowing down a bit further, I found that
physaddr.c is the file that needs to have branch profiling disabled to
get the machine to boot.
I suspect that it might invoke some ftrace helper very early in the boot
process and ftrace is still not enabled(!?).
Rather than playing whack-a-mole with individual files, disable branch
profiling for the entire arch/arm64 tree, similar to what x86 already
does in arch/x86/Kbuild.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/Kbuild | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kbuild b/arch/arm64/Kbuild
index 5bfbf7d79c99b..d876bc0e54211 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kbuild
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kbuild
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+# Branch profiling isn't noinstr-safe
+subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING) += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
+
obj-y += kernel/ mm/ net/
obj-$(CONFIG_KVM) += kvm/
obj-$(CONFIG_XEN) += xen/
--
2.51.0