--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst~kcov-collect-coverage-from-interrupts
+++ a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
@@ -217,14 +217,15 @@ This allows to collect coverage from two
 threads: the global ones, that are spawned during kernel boot in a limited
 number of instances (e.g. one USB hub_event() worker thread is spawned per
 USB HCD); and the local ones, that are spawned when a user interacts with
-some kernel interface (e.g. vhost workers).
+some kernel interface (e.g. vhost workers); as well as from soft
+interrupts.
 
-To enable collecting coverage from a global background thread, a unique
-global handle must be assigned and passed to the corresponding
-kcov_remote_start() call. Then a userspace process can pass a list of such
-handles to the KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE ioctl in the handles array field of the
-kcov_remote_arg struct. This will attach the used kcov device to the code
-sections, that are referenced by those handles.
+To enable collecting coverage from a global background thread or from a
+softirq, a unique global handle must be assigned and passed to the
+corresponding kcov_remote_start() call. Then a userspace process can pass
+a list of such handles to the KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE ioctl in the handles
+array field of the kcov_remote_arg struct. This will attach the used kcov
+device to the code sections, that are referenced by those handles.
 
 Since there might be many local background threads spawned from different
 userspace processes, we can't use a single global handle per annotation.
@@ -242,7 +243,7 @@ handles as they don't belong to a partic
 currently reserved and must be zero. In the future the number of bytes
 used for the subsystem or handle ids might be increased.
 
-When a particular userspace proccess collects coverage by via a common
+When a particular userspace proccess collects coverage via a common
 handle, kcov will collect coverage for each code section that is annotated
 to use the common handle obtained as kcov_handle from the current
 task_struct. However non common handles allow to collect coverage
--- a/include/linux/sched.h~kcov-collect-coverage-from-interrupts
+++ a/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1237,6 +1237,9 @@ struct task_struct {
 
 	/* KCOV sequence number: */
 	int				kcov_sequence;
+
+	/* Collect coverage from softirq context: */
+	unsigned int			kcov_softirq;
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
--- a/kernel/kcov.c~kcov-collect-coverage-from-interrupts
+++ a/kernel/kcov.c
@@ -86,6 +86,18 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kcov_remote_lock)
 static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(kcov_remote_map, 4);
 static struct list_head kcov_remote_areas = LIST_HEAD_INIT(kcov_remote_areas);
 
+struct kcov_percpu_data {
+	void			*irq_area;
+
+	unsigned int		saved_mode;
+	unsigned int		saved_size;
+	void			*saved_area;
+	struct kcov		*saved_kcov;
+	int			saved_sequence;
+};
+
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kcov_percpu_data, kcov_percpu_data);
+
 /* Must be called with kcov_remote_lock locked. */
 static struct kcov_remote *kcov_remote_find(u64 handle)
 {
@@ -145,9 +157,10 @@ static notrace bool check_kcov_mode(enum
 
 	/*
 	 * We are interested in code coverage as a function of a syscall inputs,
-	 * so we ignore code executed in interrupts.
+	 * so we ignore code executed in interrupts, unless we are in a remote
+	 * coverage collection section in a softirq.
 	 */
-	if (!in_task())
+	if (!in_task() && !(in_serving_softirq() && t->kcov_softirq))
 		return false;
 	mode = READ_ONCE(t->kcov_mode);
 	/*
@@ -360,8 +373,9 @@ static void kcov_remote_reset(struct kco
 	int bkt;
 	struct kcov_remote *remote;
 	struct hlist_node *tmp;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
 	hash_for_each_safe(kcov_remote_map, bkt, tmp, remote, hnode) {
 		if (remote->kcov != kcov)
 			continue;
@@ -370,7 +384,7 @@ static void kcov_remote_reset(struct kco
 	}
 	/* Do reset before unlock to prevent races with kcov_remote_start(). */
 	kcov_reset(kcov);
-	spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static void kcov_disable(struct task_struct *t, struct kcov *kcov)
@@ -399,12 +413,13 @@ static void kcov_put(struct kcov *kcov)
 void kcov_task_exit(struct task_struct *t)
 {
 	struct kcov *kcov;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	kcov = t->kcov;
 	if (kcov == NULL)
 		return;
 
-	spin_lock(&kcov->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&kcov->lock, flags);
 	kcov_debug("t = %px, kcov->t = %px\n", t, kcov->t);
 	/*
 	 * For KCOV_ENABLE devices we want to make sure that t->kcov->t == t,
@@ -428,12 +443,12 @@ void kcov_task_exit(struct task_struct *
 	 * By combining all three checks into one we get:
 	 */
 	if (WARN_ON(kcov->t != t)) {
-		spin_unlock(&kcov->lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov->lock, flags);
 		return;
 	}
 	/* Just to not leave dangling references behind. */
 	kcov_disable(t, kcov);
-	spin_unlock(&kcov->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov->lock, flags);
 	kcov_put(kcov);
 }
 
@@ -444,12 +459,13 @@ static int kcov_mmap(struct file *filep,
 	struct kcov *kcov = vma->vm_file->private_data;
 	unsigned long size, off;
 	struct page *page;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	area = vmalloc_user(vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start);
 	if (!area)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	spin_lock(&kcov->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&kcov->lock, flags);
 	size = kcov->size * sizeof(unsigned long);
 	if (kcov->mode != KCOV_MODE_INIT || vma->vm_pgoff != 0 ||
 	    vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start != size) {
@@ -459,7 +475,7 @@ static int kcov_mmap(struct file *filep,
 	if (!kcov->area) {
 		kcov->area = area;
 		vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND;
-		spin_unlock(&kcov->lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov->lock, flags);
 		for (off = 0; off < size; off += PAGE_SIZE) {
 			page = vmalloc_to_page(kcov->area + off);
 			if (vm_insert_page(vma, vma->vm_start + off, page))
@@ -468,7 +484,7 @@ static int kcov_mmap(struct file *filep,
 		return 0;
 	}
 exit:
-	spin_unlock(&kcov->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov->lock, flags);
 	vfree(area);
 	return res;
 }
@@ -548,6 +564,7 @@ static int kcov_ioctl_locked(struct kcov
 	int mode, i;
 	struct kcov_remote_arg *remote_arg;
 	struct kcov_remote *remote;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case KCOV_INIT_TRACE:
@@ -620,17 +637,19 @@ static int kcov_ioctl_locked(struct kcov
 		kcov->t = t;
 		kcov->remote = true;
 		kcov->remote_size = remote_arg->area_size;
-		spin_lock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
 		for (i = 0; i < remote_arg->num_handles; i++) {
 			if (!kcov_check_handle(remote_arg->handles[i],
 						false, true, false)) {
-				spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock,
+							flags);
 				kcov_disable(t, kcov);
 				return -EINVAL;
 			}
 			remote = kcov_remote_add(kcov, remote_arg->handles[i]);
 			if (IS_ERR(remote)) {
-				spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock,
+							flags);
 				kcov_disable(t, kcov);
 				return PTR_ERR(remote);
 			}
@@ -638,20 +657,22 @@ static int kcov_ioctl_locked(struct kcov
 		if (remote_arg->common_handle) {
 			if (!kcov_check_handle(remote_arg->common_handle,
 						true, false, false)) {
-				spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock,
+							flags);
 				kcov_disable(t, kcov);
 				return -EINVAL;
 			}
 			remote = kcov_remote_add(kcov,
 					remote_arg->common_handle);
 			if (IS_ERR(remote)) {
-				spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock,
+							flags);
 				kcov_disable(t, kcov);
 				return PTR_ERR(remote);
 			}
 			t->kcov_handle = remote_arg->common_handle;
 		}
-		spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
 		/* Put either in kcov_task_exit() or in KCOV_DISABLE. */
 		kcov_get(kcov);
 		return 0;
@@ -667,6 +688,7 @@ static long kcov_ioctl(struct file *file
 	struct kcov_remote_arg *remote_arg = NULL;
 	unsigned int remote_num_handles;
 	unsigned long remote_arg_size;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	if (cmd == KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE) {
 		if (get_user(remote_num_handles, (unsigned __user *)(arg +
@@ -687,9 +709,9 @@ static long kcov_ioctl(struct file *file
 	}
 
 	kcov = filep->private_data;
-	spin_lock(&kcov->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&kcov->lock, flags);
 	res = kcov_ioctl_locked(kcov, cmd, arg);
-	spin_unlock(&kcov->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov->lock, flags);
 
 	kfree(remote_arg);
 
@@ -706,8 +728,8 @@ static const struct file_operations kcov
 
 /*
  * kcov_remote_start() and kcov_remote_stop() can be used to annotate a section
- * of code in a kernel background thread to allow kcov to be used to collect
- * coverage from that part of code.
+ * of code in a kernel background thread or in a softirq to allow kcov to be
+ * used to collect coverage from that part of code.
  *
  * The handle argument of kcov_remote_start() identifies a code section that is
  * used for coverage collection. A userspace process passes this handle to
@@ -718,9 +740,9 @@ static const struct file_operations kcov
  * the type of the kernel thread whose code is being annotated.
  *
  * For global kernel threads that are spawned in a limited number of instances
- * (e.g. one USB hub_event() worker thread is spawned per USB HCD), each
- * instance must be assigned a unique 4-byte instance id. The instance id is
- * then combined with a 1-byte subsystem id to get a handle via
+ * (e.g. one USB hub_event() worker thread is spawned per USB HCD) and for
+ * softirqs, each instance must be assigned a unique 4-byte instance id. The
+ * instance id is then combined with a 1-byte subsystem id to get a handle via
  * kcov_remote_handle(subsystem_id, instance_id).
  *
  * For local kernel threads that are spawned from system calls handler when a
@@ -739,7 +761,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kcov
  *
  * See Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst for more details.
  *
- * Internally, this function looks up the kcov device associated with the
+ * Internally, kcov_remote_start() looks up the kcov device associated with the
  * provided handle, allocates an area for coverage collection, and saves the
  * pointers to kcov and area into the current task_struct to allow coverage to
  * be collected via __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc()
@@ -752,6 +774,39 @@ static inline bool kcov_mode_enabled(uns
 	return (mode & ~KCOV_IN_CTXSW) != KCOV_MODE_DISABLED;
 }
 
+void kcov_remote_softirq_start(struct task_struct *t)
+{
+	struct kcov_percpu_data *data = this_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data);
+	unsigned int mode;
+
+	mode = READ_ONCE(t->kcov_mode);
+	barrier();
+	if (kcov_mode_enabled(mode)) {
+		data->saved_mode = mode;
+		data->saved_size = t->kcov_size;
+		data->saved_area = t->kcov_area;
+		data->saved_sequence = t->kcov_sequence;
+		data->saved_kcov = t->kcov;
+		kcov_stop(t);
+	}
+}
+
+void kcov_remote_softirq_stop(struct task_struct *t)
+{
+	struct kcov_percpu_data *data = this_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data);
+
+	if (data->saved_kcov) {
+		kcov_start(t, data->saved_kcov, data->saved_size,
+				data->saved_area, data->saved_mode,
+				data->saved_sequence);
+		data->saved_mode = 0;
+		data->saved_size = 0;
+		data->saved_area = NULL;
+		data->saved_sequence = 0;
+		data->saved_kcov = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
 void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
 {
 	struct task_struct *t = current;
@@ -761,28 +816,42 @@ void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
 	void *area;
 	unsigned int size;
 	int sequence;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	if (WARN_ON(!kcov_check_handle(handle, true, true, true)))
 		return;
-	if (WARN_ON(!in_task()))
+	if (!in_task() && !in_serving_softirq())
 		return;
 
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+
 	/*
-	 * Check that kcov_remote_start is not called twice
-	 * nor called by user tasks (with enabled kcov).
+	 * Check that kcov_remote_start() is not called twice in background
+	 * threads nor called by user tasks (with enabled kcov).
 	 */
 	mode = READ_ONCE(t->kcov_mode);
-	if (WARN_ON(kcov_mode_enabled(mode)))
+	if (WARN_ON(in_task() && kcov_mode_enabled(mode))) {
+		local_irq_restore(flags);
 		return;
-
-	kcov_debug("handle = %llx\n", handle);
+	}
+	/*
+	 * Check that kcov_remote_start() is not called twice in softirqs.
+	 * Note, that kcov_remote_start() can be called from a softirq that
+	 * happened while collecting coverage from a background thread.
+	 */
+	if (WARN_ON(in_serving_softirq() && t->kcov_softirq)) {
+		local_irq_restore(flags);
+		return;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock(&kcov_remote_lock);
 	remote = kcov_remote_find(handle);
 	if (!remote) {
-		spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
 		return;
 	}
+	kcov_debug("handle = %llx, context: %s\n", handle,
+			in_task() ? "task" : "softirq");
 	kcov = remote->kcov;
 	/* Put in kcov_remote_stop(). */
 	kcov_get(kcov);
@@ -790,12 +859,18 @@ void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
 	 * Read kcov fields before unlock to prevent races with
 	 * KCOV_DISABLE / kcov_remote_reset().
 	 */
-	size = kcov->remote_size;
 	mode = kcov->mode;
 	sequence = kcov->sequence;
-	area = kcov_remote_area_get(size);
-	spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+	if (in_task()) {
+		size = kcov->remote_size;
+		area = kcov_remote_area_get(size);
+	} else {
+		size = CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE;
+		area = this_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data)->irq_area;
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
 
+	/* Can only happen when in_task(). */
 	if (!area) {
 		area = vmalloc(size * sizeof(unsigned long));
 		if (!area) {
@@ -803,11 +878,20 @@ void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
 			return;
 		}
 	}
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+
 	/* Reset coverage size. */
 	*(u64 *)area = 0;
 
+	if (in_serving_softirq()) {
+		kcov_remote_softirq_start(t);
+		t->kcov_softirq = 1;
+	}
 	kcov_start(t, kcov, size, area, mode, sequence);
 
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kcov_remote_start);
 
@@ -875,31 +959,53 @@ void kcov_remote_stop(void)
 	void *area;
 	unsigned int size;
 	int sequence;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	if (!in_task() && !in_serving_softirq())
+		return;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
 
 	mode = READ_ONCE(t->kcov_mode);
 	barrier();
-	if (!kcov_mode_enabled(mode))
+	if (!kcov_mode_enabled(mode)) {
+		local_irq_restore(flags);
 		return;
+	}
 	kcov = t->kcov;
 	area = t->kcov_area;
 	size = t->kcov_size;
 	sequence = t->kcov_sequence;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(!in_serving_softirq() && t->kcov_softirq)) {
+		local_irq_restore(flags);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	kcov_stop(t);
+	if (in_serving_softirq()) {
+		t->kcov_softirq = 0;
+		kcov_remote_softirq_stop(t);
+	}
 
 	spin_lock(&kcov->lock);
 	/*
 	 * KCOV_DISABLE could have been called between kcov_remote_start()
-	 * and kcov_remote_stop(), hence the check.
+	 * and kcov_remote_stop(), hence the sequence check.
 	 */
 	if (sequence == kcov->sequence && kcov->remote)
 		kcov_move_area(kcov->mode, kcov->area, kcov->size, area);
 	spin_unlock(&kcov->lock);
 
-	spin_lock(&kcov_remote_lock);
-	kcov_remote_area_put(area, size);
-	spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+	if (in_task()) {
+		spin_lock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+		kcov_remote_area_put(area, size);
+		spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+	}
+
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
+	/* Get in kcov_remote_start(). */
 	kcov_put(kcov);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kcov_remote_stop);
@@ -913,6 +1019,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kcov_common_handle);
 
 static int __init kcov_init(void)
 {
+	int cpu;
+
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+		void *area = vmalloc(CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE *
+				sizeof(unsigned long));
+		if (!area)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		per_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data, cpu)->irq_area = area;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * The kcov debugfs file won't ever get removed and thus,
 	 * there is no need to protect it against removal races. The
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug~kcov-collect-coverage-from-interrupts
+++ a/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1767,6 +1767,15 @@ config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
 	  filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
 	  for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
 
+config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE
+	hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words"
+	depends on KCOV
+	default 0x40000
+	help
+	  KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from
+	  soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the
+	  number of unsigned long words.
+
 menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
 	bool "Runtime Testing"
 	def_bool y
