Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: allow building with kcov coverage on ARM64

[Alexander Potapenko]

Hi all,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Add ARCH_HAS_KCOV to ARM64 config. To avoid crashes, disable
> instrumentation of the following files:
>
> arch/arm64/boot/*
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/*
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: - disable instrumentation of arch/arm64/{boot,kvm/hyp}
>     - enable instrumentation of arch/arm64/lib/delay.c
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig          | 1 +
>  arch/arm64/boot/Makefile    | 4 ++++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile | 4 ++++
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 5a0a691..eb0b0a0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ config ARM64
>         select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
>         select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
>         select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
> +       select ARCH_HAS_KCOV
>         select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
>         select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
>         select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile b/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
> index 305c552..74cec89 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
> @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
>  # Based on the ia64 boot/Makefile.
>  #
>
> +# Avoid potential boot-time problems with kcov instrumentation. We are mostly
> +# interested in syscall coverage, so boot code is not interesting anyway.
> +KCOV_INSTRUMENT                := n
> +
>  targets := Image Image.gz
>
>  $(obj)/Image: vmlinux FORCE
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile
> index 778d0ef..0c85feb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile
> @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += tlb.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += hyp-entry.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += s2-setup.o
>
> +# KVM code is run at a different exception code with a different map, so
> +# compiler instrumentation that inserts callbacks or checks into the code may
> +# cause crashes. Just disable it.
>  GCOV_PROFILE   := n
>  KASAN_SANITIZE := n
>  UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
> +KCOV_INSTRUMENT        := n
> --
> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
>
Following the previous patch discussion, I have dropped the delay.c
exception, which isn't strictly required for kcov to function.
We can decide what to do with it later.
Instead I've added rules to avoid instrumentation of arch/arm64/boot
and arch/arm64/kvm


-- 
Alexander Potapenko
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