From 4617721c502b2ddaa4e324e86da4997edf738fa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 09:55:01 -0400 Subject: ftrace: Synchronize the initialization of ftrace_ops There's some internal state that ftrace_ops needs to have set, but since it can be declared outside of the ftrace.c code, it calls ftrace_ops_init() on the ops in every global function. The issue is that if two tasks call it on the same ops at the same time it is possible to have the initialization of one corrupt the initialization of the other call. Create a ops_mutex to use to synchronize every initialization of the ftrace_ops. The mutex is taken within checking the ftrace_ops flag that states it was initializied but the flag is checked again after the mutex has been taken. Checking first outside the mutex allows it to shortcut having to take the mutex. But then the check needs to be done again after the mute is taken in case of races. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902095501.6b59af20@gandalf.local.home Fixes: f04f24fb7e48d ("ftrace, kprobes: Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock") Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org Close: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260829025528.49A831F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- Documentation/arch/arc/arc.rst | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/arch/arc/features.rst | 3 ++ Documentation/arch/arc/index.rst | 10 +++++ 3 files changed, 98 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/arch/arc/arc.rst create mode 100644 Documentation/arch/arc/features.rst create mode 100644 Documentation/arch/arc/index.rst (limited to 'Documentation/arch/arc') diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arc/arc.rst b/Documentation/arch/arc/arc.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5923dee37 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arch/arc/arc.rst @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Linux kernel for ARC processors +******************************* + +Other sources of information +############################ + +Below are some resources where more information can be found on +ARC processors and relevant open source projects. + +- ``_ - Community portal for open source on ARC. + Good place to start to find relevant FOSS projects, toolchain releases, + news items and more. + +- ``_ - + Home for all development activities regarding open source projects for + ARC processors. Some of the projects are forks of various upstream projects, + where "work in progress" is hosted prior to submission to upstream projects. + Other projects are developed by Synopsys and made available to community + as open source for use on ARC Processors. + +- `Official Synopsys ARC Processors website + `_ - + location, with access to some IP documentation (`Programmer's Reference + Manual, AKA PRM for ARC HS processors + `_) + and free versions of some commercial tools (`Free nSIM + `_ and + `MetaWare Light Edition `_). + Please note though, registration is required to access both the documentation and + the tools. + +Important note on ARC processors configurability +################################################ + +ARC processors are highly configurable and several configurable options +are supported in Linux. Some options are transparent to software +(e.g., cache geometries), some can be detected at runtime and configured +and used accordingly, while some need to be explicitly selected or configured +in the kernel's configuration utility (AKA "make menuconfig"). + +However not all configurable options are supported when an ARC processor +is to run Linux. SoC design teams should refer to "Appendix E: +Configuration for ARC Linux" in the ARC HS Databook for configurability +guidelines. + +Following these guidelines and selecting valid configuration options +up front is critical to help prevent any unwanted issues during +SoC bringup and software development in general. + +Building the Linux kernel for ARC processors +############################################ + +The process of kernel building for ARC processors is the same as for any other +architecture and could be done in 2 ways: + +- Cross-compilation: process of compiling for ARC targets on a development + host with a different processor architecture (generally x86_64/amd64). +- Native compilation: process of compiling for ARC on a ARC platform + (hardware board or a simulator like QEMU) with complete development environment + (GNU toolchain, dtc, make etc) installed on the platform. + +In both cases, up-to-date GNU toolchain for ARC for the host is needed. +Synopsys offers prebuilt toolchain releases which can be used for this purpose, +available from: + +- Synopsys GNU toolchain releases: + ``_ + +- Linux kernel compilers collection: + ``_ + +- Bootlin's toolchain collection: ``_ + +Once the toolchain is installed in the system, make sure its "bin" folder +is added in your ``PATH`` environment variable. Then set ``ARCH=arc`` & +``CROSS_COMPILE=arc-linux`` (or whatever matches installed ARC toolchain prefix) +and then as usual ``make defconfig && make``. + +This will produce "vmlinux" file in the root of the kernel source tree +usable for loading on the target system via JTAG. +If you need to get an image usable with U-Boot bootloader, +type ``make uImage`` and ``uImage`` will be produced in ``arch/arc/boot`` +folder. diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arc/features.rst b/Documentation/arch/arc/features.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..49ff446ff --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arch/arc/features.rst @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +.. kernel-feat:: features arc diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arc/index.rst b/Documentation/arch/arc/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..10bf8c270 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arch/arc/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +=================== +ARC architecture +=================== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + arc + + features -- cgit v1.3.1