On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:16:35 -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
> The arm64 kernel doesn't boot with annotated branches
> (PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES) enabled and CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL together.
>
> Bisecting it, I found that disabling branch profiling in arch/arm64/mm
> solved the problem. Narrowing down a bit further, I found that
> physaddr.c is the file that needs to have branch profiling disabled to
> get the machine to boot.
>
> [...]
Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!
[1/1] arm64: Disable branch profiling for all arm64 code
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/f22c81bebf8b
Cheers,
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Will
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