* [PATCH] riscv: entry: Mark ret_from_fork_kernel() and ret_from_fork_user() noinstr
@ 2026-11-07 19:49 Karl Mehltretter
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From: Karl Mehltretter @ 2026-11-07 19:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Walmsley, Palmer Dabbelt, Albert Ou, Alexandre Ghiti
Cc: Karl Mehltretter, Charlie Jenkins, Thomas Gleixner,
Steven Rostedt, linux-riscv, linux-kernel
ret_from_fork_kernel() and ret_from_fork_user() are traceable and
return after syscall_exit_to_user_mode() enters the RCU extended
quiescent state via user_enter_irqoff() on NO_HZ_FULL CPUs. When
function_graph tracing is enabled with
FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING, the return hook runs after RCU stops
watching and triggers the ftrace_return_to_handler() warning.
Mark ret_from_fork_kernel() and ret_from_fork_user() noinstr and bracket
the kernel thread callback with instrumentation_begin() and
instrumentation_end().
Fixes: f955aa8723a6 ("riscv: entry: Convert ret_from_fork() to C")
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
Assisted by an LLM.
Tested on v7.4-rc1 (d48723711bae) under QEMU riscv64 (-smp 4) with
NO_HZ_FULL, FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING, PROVE_LOCKING,
nohz_full=1-3 rcu_nocbs=1-3 on the kernel command line, and
function_graph tracing during parallel fork bursts across CPUs 0-3.
Without this patch, two consecutive runs trigger:
RCU not on for: ret_from_fork_user+0x4/0x368
WARNING: include/linux/trace_recursion.h:132 at ftrace_return_to_handler+0x2e0/0x2f0, CPU#2
followed by an observed kernel paging request Oops in
ftrace_graph_ret_addr() while unwinding the warning backtrace.
With this patch, two consecutive runs complete without the
ftrace_return_to_handler() warning or unwind fault.
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
index 34c1d498d1cad..10c1bee77145f 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
@@ -225,14 +225,17 @@ int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
return 0;
}
-asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_kernel(void *fn_arg, int (*fn)(void *), struct pt_regs *regs)
+asmlinkage void noinstr ret_from_fork_kernel(void *fn_arg, int (*fn)(void *),
+ struct pt_regs *regs)
{
+ instrumentation_begin();
fn(fn_arg);
+ instrumentation_end();
syscall_exit_to_user_mode(regs);
}
-asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_user(struct pt_regs *regs)
+asmlinkage void noinstr ret_from_fork_user(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
syscall_exit_to_user_mode(regs);
}
base-commit: d48723711bae9b8cdc56719c448ba42fef28cbee
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
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