Re: Collecting both remote and "local" coverage with KCOV

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 9:35 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 3:39 AM Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to collect coverage over the syscalls issued by my process,
> > as well as the kthreads spawned as a result of these syscalls
> > (eg coverage over vhost ioctls and the worker kthread). Is there a way
> > to collect coverage with both KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE(with common_handle) and
> > KCOV_ENABLE, simultaneously?
> >
> > Based on the code it seems that these two modes are mutually
> > exclusive within a single task, but I don't think this is mentioned in
> > the Documentation, so I want to make sure I'm not missing something.
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> Yes, it's probably not supported within a single task. The easiest way
> to verify is to try it ;)
>
> It is possible to collect both coverages, but you will need 2 threads
> (one just to set up remote KCOV).
>
> Unless I am missing any fundamental limitations, I would say it would
> be reasonable to support this within a single task as well.

I think the reason we did that initially, is because we don't care
about normal coverage for USB emitting pseudo-syscalls. Filed a bug
for this: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210225