[PATCH 2/2] kbuild: move GCOV flags to scripts/Makefile.gcov
From: Konstantin Khorenko
Date: Thu Oct 01 2026 - 13:04:41 EST
* split the CFLAGS_GCOV block out of the top-level Makefile into
scripts/Makefile.gcov
* include it via include-$(CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) like neighbour
KASAN/KCOV/UBSAN makefiles do
* keep the include before scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins: the try-run
must not get -fplugin= options, plugins do not exist on clean builds
CFLAGS_GCOV is no longer defined when CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL is off:
* its user in scripts/Makefile.lib is guarded by the CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
* in i915/xe header an empty value is harmless
The try-run compiler invocations also stop running on builds without
GCOV.
Suggested-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
Makefile | 22 +---------------------
scripts/Makefile.gcov | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 360977678f707..fabf33758351f 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -10897,6 +10897,7 @@ M: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst
F: kernel/gcov/
+F: scripts/Makefile.gcov
GDB KERNEL DEBUGGING HELPER SCRIPTS
M: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3b69b973f7598..f3ea94ceb1cec 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1176,27 +1176,6 @@ endif
# Ensure compilers do not transform certain loops into calls to wcslen()
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-builtin-wcslen
-CFLAGS_GCOV := -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
-ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
-CFLAGS_GCOV += -fno-tree-loop-im
-# Use atomic counter updates to avoid concurrent-access crashes in GCOV.
-# Only enable if -fprofile-update=prefer-atomic does not introduce new
-# undefined symbols (e.g. libatomic calls that the kernel cannot link).
-CFLAGS_GCOV += $(call try-run,\
- echo 'long long x; void f(void){x++;}' | \
- $(CC) $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -w $(CFLAGS_GCOV) \
- -x c - -c -o "$$TMP.base" && \
- echo 'long long x; void f(void){x++;}' | \
- $(CC) $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -w $(CFLAGS_GCOV) \
- -fprofile-update=prefer-atomic \
- -x c - -c -o "$$TMP" && \
- $(NM) "$$TMP.base" | grep ' U ' > "$$TMP.ubase" || true ; \
- $(NM) "$$TMP" | grep ' U ' > "$$TMP.utest" || true ; \
- cmp -s "$$TMP.ubase" "$$TMP.utest",\
- -fprofile-update=prefer-atomic)
-endif
-export CFLAGS_GCOV
-
# change __FILE__ to the relative path to the source directory
ifdef building_out_of_srctree
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -fmacro-prefix-map=$(srcroot)/=
@@ -1214,6 +1193,7 @@ include-$(CONFIG_KCSAN) += scripts/Makefile.kcsan
include-$(CONFIG_KMSAN) += scripts/Makefile.kmsan
include-$(CONFIG_UBSAN) += scripts/Makefile.ubsan
include-$(CONFIG_KCOV) += scripts/Makefile.kcov
+include-$(CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) += scripts/Makefile.gcov
include-$(CONFIG_RANDSTRUCT) += scripts/Makefile.randstruct
include-$(CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE) += scripts/Makefile.kstack_erase
include-$(CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG) += scripts/Makefile.autofdo
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.gcov b/scripts/Makefile.gcov
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..16c5b876440c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.gcov
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+CFLAGS_GCOV := -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
+ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
+CFLAGS_GCOV += -fno-tree-loop-im
+# Use atomic counter updates to avoid concurrent-access crashes in GCOV.
+# Only enable if -fprofile-update=prefer-atomic does not introduce new
+# undefined symbols (e.g. libatomic calls that the kernel cannot link).
+CFLAGS_GCOV += $(call try-run,\
+ echo 'long long x; void f(void){x++;}' | \
+ $(CC) $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -w $(CFLAGS_GCOV) \
+ -x c - -c -o "$$TMP.base" && \
+ echo 'long long x; void f(void){x++;}' | \
+ $(CC) $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -w $(CFLAGS_GCOV) \
+ -fprofile-update=prefer-atomic \
+ -x c - -c -o "$$TMP" && \
+ $(NM) "$$TMP.base" | grep ' U ' > "$$TMP.ubase" || true ; \
+ $(NM) "$$TMP" | grep ' U ' > "$$TMP.utest" || true ; \
+ cmp -s "$$TMP.ubase" "$$TMP.utest",\
+ -fprofile-update=prefer-atomic)
+endif
+export CFLAGS_GCOV
--
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