Enabling gcov is counterproductive to compile testing: it significantly
increases the kernel image size, compile time, and it produces lots
of false positive "may be used uninitialized" warnings as the result
of missed optimizations.
This is in line with how UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL and PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
work, both of which have similar problems.
With an ARM allmodconfig kernel, I see the build time drop from
283 minutes CPU time to 225 minutes, and the vmlinux size drops
from 43MB to 26MB.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Following the suggestions from Andrew Morton and Stephen Rothwell,
Dont expand the ARCH list in kernel/gcov/Kconfig. Instead,
define a ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL bool which architectures
can enable.
set ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL on Architectures where it was
previously allowed + ARM64 which I tested.
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Following up the arm testing of gcov, turns out gcov on ARM64 works fine
as well. Only change needed is adding ARM64 to Kconfig depends.
Tested with qemu and mach-virt
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Enable gcov support for ARM based on original patches by David
Singleton and George G. Davis
Riku - updated to patch to current mainline kernel. The patch
has been submitted in 2010, 2012 - for symmetry, now in 2014 too.
https://lwn.net/Articles/390419/http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=133823081813044
v2: remove arch/arm/kernel from gcov disabled files
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders <vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Selecting GCOV for UML causing configuration mismatch:
warning: (GCOV_KERNEL) selects CONSTRUCTORS which has unmet direct dependencies (!UML)
Constructors are not needed for UML.
Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS controls support for running constructor functions at
kernel init time. According to commit b99b87f70c ("kernel:
constructor support"), gcov (CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) needs this. However,
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS currently defaults to y, with no option to disable it,
and CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL depends on it. Instead, default it to n and have
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL select it, so that the normal case of
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=n will result in CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=n.
Observed in the short list of =y values in a minimal kernel configuration.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch enables gcov kernel profiling over the whole kernel for sh.
Profiling of specific files individually already worked. A handful of
files have to be explicitly excluded from the profiling to avoid
breaking things, notably pmb.c.
Signed-off-by: Chris Smith <chris.smith@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Make it possible to enable GCOV code coverage measurement on powerpc.
Lightly tested on 64-bit, seems to work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes
include disabling profiling for:
* arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed:
not linked to main kernel
* arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet:
profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context)
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
kernel. gcov may be useful for:
* debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
* test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
* minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
associated code is never run?)
The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:
* change kbuild to include profiling flags
* provide functions needed by profiling code
* present profiling data as files in debugfs
Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
"-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
others which require adjustment of architecture code.
For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
text).
[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
