[ Resending with my kernel.org email, as I received a bunch of messages from gmail saying it's blocking me :-p ]
On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 21:15:40 +0000 Will Deacon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another approach is to disable profiling on all arch/arm64 code, similarly > > to > > x86, where DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING is called for all arch/x86 code. See > > commit 2cbb20b008dba ("tracing: Disable branch profiling in noinstr > > code"). > > Yes, let's start with arch/arm64/. We know that's safe and then if > somebody wants to make it finer-grained, it's on them to figure out a > way to do it without playing whack-a-mole. OK, so by adding -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING to the Makefile configs and for the files that were audited, could be opt-in? CFLAGS_REMOVE_<autdit_file>.o = -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING And add that for each file that has been fully audited? -- Steve
