Re: [PATCH 1/2] gcov: re-fix clang-11+ support

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Apr 07 2021 - 17:28:38 EST


On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 2:21 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:54:55 -0700 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > LLVM changed the expected function signature for
> > llvm_gcda_emit_function() in the clang-11 release. Users of clang-11 or
> > newer may have noticed their kernels producing invalid coverage
> > information:
> >
> > $ llvm-cov gcov -a -c -u -f -b <input>.gcda -- gcno=<input>.gcno
> > 1 <func>: checksum mismatch, \
> > (<lineno chksum A>, <cfg chksum B>) != (<lineno chksum A>, <cfg chksum C>)
> > 2 Invalid .gcda File!
> > ...
> >
> > Fix up the function signatures so calling this function interprets its
> > parameters correctly and computes the correct cfg checksum. In
> > particular, in clang-11, the additional checksum is no longer optional.
>
> Which tree is this against? I'm seeing quite a lot of rejects against
> Linus's current.

Today's linux-next; the only recent changes to this single source file
since my last patches were:

commit b3c4e66c908b ("gcov: combine common code")
commit 17d0508a080d ("gcov: use kvmalloc()")

both have your sign off, so I assume those are in your tree?

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers