Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kasan: mark !__SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ stubs __always_inline

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 10:24:39AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > And in the meantime, I guess patch 3/3 is OK? 
> 
> I'm not sure, ISTR having yelled profanities at GCOV in general for
> being just straight up broken. And people seem to insist on adding more
> and more *COV variants and I keep yelling at them or something.
> 
> That is GCOV, KCOV and llvm-cov are all doing basically the same damn
> thing (and sure, llvm-cov gets more edges but details) and we should not
> be having 3 different damn interfaces for it. Also, they all should
> bloody well respect noinstr and if they don't they're just broken and
> all that :-)
> 
> That is, I'd as soon just make them all "depend BROKEN" and call it a
> day.

Right.

And I don't think anyone has had any serious plans for COV-ing the SEV code so
lemme take 3/3.

I, like Peter, am gravitating towards a kill-that-thing-with-a-master-switch
instead of whack-a-mole-ing the kernel.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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