[RFC PATCH 9/9] arm64/debug: Mark debug exception helpers __always_inline

From: Hongyan Xia

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 08:27:04 EST


From: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Static inline should be enough to actually inline functions for most
compilers, but my Clang-19 somehow thinks it's better to outline them.
These tiny helpers then live in normal .text sections instead of
.noinstr sections, violating noinstr.

Mark them __always_inline so the compiler can never outline them.

Signed-off-by: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h | 4 ++--
arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h | 4 ++--
arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 2 +-
include/linux/kprobes.h | 8 ++++----
6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h
index f816f5d77f1a..a75bfdb7e5fe 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
#ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
#include <asm/types.h>

-static inline unsigned long esr_brk_comment(unsigned long esr)
+static __always_inline unsigned long esr_brk_comment(unsigned long esr)
{
return esr & ESR_ELx_BRK64_ISS_COMMENT_MASK;
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h
index b57b2bb00967..d4cae47fde8c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __hyp_my_cpu_offset(void)
return read_sysreg(tpidr_el2);
}

-static inline unsigned long __kern_my_cpu_offset(void)
+static __always_inline unsigned long __kern_my_cpu_offset(void)
{
unsigned long off;

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
index 932ea4b62042..326f221c3f56 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
@@ -41,14 +41,14 @@ static inline bool test_preempt_need_resched(void)
return !current_thread_info()->preempt.need_resched;
}

-static inline void __preempt_count_add(int val)
+static __always_inline void __preempt_count_add(int val)
{
u32 pc = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count);
pc += val;
WRITE_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count, pc);
}

-static inline void __preempt_count_sub(int val)
+static __always_inline void __preempt_count_sub(int val)
{
u32 pc = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count);
pc -= val;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
index 39582511ad72..460726224299 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -336,11 +336,11 @@ static inline unsigned long regs_get_kernel_argument(struct pt_regs *regs,
struct task_struct;
int valid_user_regs(struct user_pt_regs *regs, struct task_struct *task);

-static inline unsigned long instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
+static __always_inline unsigned long instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
return regs->pc;
}
-static inline void instruction_pointer_set(struct pt_regs *regs,
+static __always_inline void instruction_pointer_set(struct pt_regs *regs,
unsigned long val)
{
regs->pc = val;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
index a970ab6327cd..66cb8151f5df 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ postcore_initcall(debug_monitors_init);
/*
* Single step API and exception handling.
*/
-static void set_user_regs_spsr_ss(struct user_pt_regs *regs)
+static __always_inline void set_user_regs_spsr_ss(struct user_pt_regs *regs)
{
regs->pstate |= DBG_SPSR_SS;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
index 8c4f3bb24429..5880445ed0f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
@@ -384,17 +384,17 @@ static inline void kprobe_ftrace_kill(void) {}
struct kprobe *get_kprobe(void *addr);

/* kprobe_running() will just return the current_kprobe on this CPU */
-static inline struct kprobe *kprobe_running(void)
+static __always_inline struct kprobe *kprobe_running(void)
{
return __this_cpu_read(current_kprobe);
}

-static inline void reset_current_kprobe(void)
+static __always_inline void reset_current_kprobe(void)
{
__this_cpu_write(current_kprobe, NULL);
}

-static inline struct kprobe_ctlblk *get_kprobe_ctlblk(void)
+static __always_inline struct kprobe_ctlblk *get_kprobe_ctlblk(void)
{
return this_cpu_ptr(&kprobe_ctlblk);
}
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ static inline struct kprobe *get_kprobe(void *addr)
{
return NULL;
}
-static inline struct kprobe *kprobe_running(void)
+static __always_inline struct kprobe *kprobe_running(void)
{
return NULL;
}
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