Hi Andy,

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:11:09PM +0800, Andy Chiu wrote:
> We are changing ftrace code patching in order to remove dependency from
> stop_machine() and enable kernel preemption. This requires us to align
> functions entry at a 4-B align address.
> 
> However, -falign-functions on older versions of GCC alone was not strong
> enoungh to align all functions. In fact, cold functions are not aligned
> after turning on optimizations. We consider this is a bug in GCC and
> turn off guess-branch-probility as a workaround to align all functions.
> 
> GCC bug id: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345
> 
> The option -fmin-function-alignment is able to align all functions
> properly on newer versions of gcc. So, we add a cc-option to test if
> the toolchain supports it.
> 
> Suggested-by: Evgenii Shatokhin <e.shatok...@yadro.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.c...@sifive.com>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig  | 1 +
>  arch/riscv/Makefile | 7 ++++++-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index b94176e25be1..80b8d48e1e46 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ config CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>  config GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>       def_bool CC_IS_GCC
>       depends on $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=8)
> +     depends on $(cc-option,-fmin-function-alignment=4) || !RISCV_ISA_C

Please use CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT (from arch/Kconfig), which
already checks for support for this option.

>  config HAVE_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
>       def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=shadow-call-stack)
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Makefile b/arch/riscv/Makefile
> index 06de9d365088..74628ad8dcf8 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile
> @@ -14,8 +14,13 @@ endif
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE),y)
>       LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-relax
>       KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DCC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG),y)

Same here, please invert this and use

  ifdef CONFIG_CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT

like the main Makefile does.

> +     cflags_ftrace_align := -falign-functions=4
> +else
> +     cflags_ftrace_align := -fmin-function-alignment=4
> +endif
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C),y)
> -     CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=4
> +     CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=4 $(cflags_ftrace_align)
>  else
>       CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=2
>  endif
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> 

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