x86: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches

GCC appears to have kind of fragile inlining heuristics, in the
sense that it can change whether or not it inlines something based on
optimizations. It looks like the kcov instrumentation being added (or in
this case, removed) from a function changes the optimization results,
and some functions marked "inline" are _not_ inlined. In that case,
we end up with __init code calling a function not marked __init, and we
get the build warnings I'm trying to eliminate in the coming patch that
adds __no_sanitize_coverage to __init functions:

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: xbc_exit+0x8 (section: .text.unlikely) -> _xbc_exit (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: real_mode_size_needed+0x15 (section: .text.unlikely) -> real_mode_blob_end (section: .init.data)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __set_percpu_decrypted+0x16 (section: .text.unlikely) -> early_set_memory_decrypted (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: memblock_alloc_from+0x26 (section: .text.unlikely) -> memblock_alloc_try_nid (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: acpi_arch_set_root_pointer+0xc (section: .text.unlikely) -> x86_init (section: .init.data)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: acpi_arch_get_root_pointer+0x8 (section: .text.unlikely) -> x86_init (section: .init.data)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: efi_config_table_is_usable+0x16 (section: .text.unlikely) -> xen_efi_config_table_is_usable (section: .init.text)

This problem is somewhat fragile (though using either __always_inline
or __init will deterministically solve it), but we've tripped over
this before with GCC and the solution has usually been to just use
__always_inline and move on.

For x86 this means forcing several functions to be inline with
__always_inline.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724055029.3623499-2-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/acpi.h b/include/linux/acpi.h
index f102c0fe3431..fc7f5e039074 100644
--- a/include/linux/acpi.h
+++ b/include/linux/acpi.h
@@ -759,13 +759,13 @@ int acpi_arch_timer_mem_init(struct arch_timer_mem *timer_mem, int *timer_count)
 #endif
 
 #ifndef ACPI_HAVE_ARCH_SET_ROOT_POINTER
-static inline void acpi_arch_set_root_pointer(u64 addr)
+static __always_inline void acpi_arch_set_root_pointer(u64 addr)
 {
 }
 #endif
 
 #ifndef ACPI_HAVE_ARCH_GET_ROOT_POINTER
-static inline u64 acpi_arch_get_root_pointer(void)
+static __always_inline u64 acpi_arch_get_root_pointer(void)
 {
 	return 0;
 }