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riscv: ftrace: align patchable functions to 4 Byte boundary
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.shatokhin@yadro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250407180838.42877-3-andybnac@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
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