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Fix kernel gcov support for GCC 5.1. Similar to commit a992bf836f9
("gcov: add support for GCC 4.9"), this patch takes into account the
existence of a new gcov counter (see gcc's gcc/gcov-counter.def.)
Firstly, it increments GCOV_COUNTERS (to 10), which makes the data
structure struct gcov_info compatible with GCC 5.1.
Secondly, a corresponding counter function __gcov_merge_icall_topn (Top N
value tracking for indirect calls) is included in base.c with the other
gcov counters unused for kernel profiling.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Yuan Pengfei <coolypf@qq.com>
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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gcov profiling if enabled with other heavy compile-time instrumentation
like KASan could trigger following softlockups:
NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]
Modules linked in:
irq event stamp: 22823276
hardirqs last enabled at (22823275): [<ffffffff86e8d10d>] mutex_lock_nested+0x7d9/0x930
hardirqs last disabled at (22823276): [<ffffffff86e9521d>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80
softirqs last enabled at (22823172): [<ffffffff811ed969>] __do_softirq+0x4db/0x729
softirqs last disabled at (22823167): [<ffffffff811edfcf>] irq_exit+0x7d/0x15b
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 3.19.0-05245-gbb33326-dirty #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.7.5.1-0-g8936dbb-20141113_115728-nilsson.home.kraxel.org 04/01/2014
task: ffff88006cba8000 ti: ffff88006cbb0000 task.ti: ffff88006cbb0000
RIP: kasan_mem_to_shadow+0x1e/0x1f
Call Trace:
strcmp+0x28/0x70
get_node_by_name+0x66/0x99
gcov_event+0x4f/0x69e
gcov_enable_events+0x54/0x7b
gcov_fs_init+0xf8/0x134
do_one_initcall+0x1b2/0x288
kernel_init_freeable+0x467/0x580
kernel_init+0x15/0x18b
ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
Fix this by sticking cond_resched() in gcov_enable_events().
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_3_4 / _4_7 / _AUTODETECT are exclusive.
Compare the CC version only when _AUTODETECT is enabled.
This change should have no impact.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Kbuild descends into kernel/gcov/ directory only when
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL is enabled. (See kernel/Makefile)
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL check can be omitted in kernel/gcov/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Since commit 371fdc77af44 (kbuild: collect shorthands into
scripts/Kbuild.include), scripts/Makefile.clean includes
scripts/Kbuild.include.
The workaround and the comment block in kernel/gcov/Makefile
are no longer necessary.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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The macros cc-version, cc-fullversion and ld-version take no argument.
It is not necessary to add $(call ...) to invoke them.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> [parisc]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Following the suggestions from Andrew Morton and Stephen Rothwell,
Dont expand the ARCH list in kernel/gcov/Kconfig. Instead,
define a ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL bool which architectures
can enable.
set ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL on Architectures where it was
previously allowed + ARM64 which I tested.
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Following up the arm testing of gcov, turns out gcov on ARM64 works fine
as well. Only change needed is adding ARM64 to Kconfig depends.
Tested with qemu and mach-virt
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Enable gcov support for ARM based on original patches by David
Singleton and George G. Davis
Riku - updated to patch to current mainline kernel. The patch
has been submitted in 2010, 2012 - for symmetry, now in 2014 too.
https://lwn.net/Articles/390419/
http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=133823081813044
v2: remove arch/arm/kernel from gcov disabled files
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders <vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This fixes checkpatch warning:
WARNING: debugfs_remove(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch handles the gcov-related changes in GCC 4.9:
A new counter (time profile) is added. The total number is 9 now.
A new profile merge function __gcov_merge_time_profile is added.
See gcc/gcov-io.h and libgcc/libgcov-merge.c
For the first change, the layout of struct gcov_info is affected.
For the second one, a dummy function is added to kernel/gcov/base.c
similarly.
Signed-off-by: Yuan Pengfei <coolypf@qq.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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To get name of the file from a pathname let's use kbasename() helper.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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pr_warning() is deprecated in favor of pr_warn()
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Compile the correct gcov implementation file for the specific gcc version.
Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The gcov in-memory format changed in gcc 4.7. The biggest change, which
requires this special implementation, is that gcov_info no longer contains
array of counters for each counter type for all functions and gcov_fn_info
is not used for mapping of function's counters to these arrays(offset).
Now each gcov_fn_info contans it's counters, which makes things a little
bit easier.
This is heavily based on the previous gcc_3_4.c implementation and patches
provided by Peter Oberparleiter. Specially the buffer gcda implementation
for iterator.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kmemdup() and kcalloc()]
[oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: gcc_4_7.c needs vmalloc.h]
Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since also the gcov structures(gcov_info, gcov_fn_info, gcov_ctr_info) can
change between gcc releases, as shown in gcc 4.7, they cannot be defined
in a common header and need to be moved to a specific gcc implemention
file. This also requires to make the gcov_info structure opaque for the
common code and to introduce simple helpers for accessing data inside
gcov_info.
Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The usage of strict_strto*() is not preferred, because strict_strto*() is
obsolete. Thus, kstrto*() should be used.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
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Selecting GCOV for UML causing configuration mismatch:
warning: (GCOV_KERNEL) selects CONSTRUCTORS which has unmet direct dependencies (!UML)
Constructors are not needed for UML.
Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS controls support for running constructor functions at
kernel init time. According to commit b99b87f70c7785ab ("kernel:
constructor support"), gcov (CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) needs this. However,
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS currently defaults to y, with no option to disable it,
and CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL depends on it. Instead, default it to n and have
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL select it, so that the normal case of
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=n will result in CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=n.
Observed in the short list of =y values in a minimal kernel configuration.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (25 commits)
video: change to new flag variable
scsi: change to new flag variable
rtc: change to new flag variable
rapidio: change to new flag variable
pps: change to new flag variable
net: change to new flag variable
misc: change to new flag variable
message: change to new flag variable
memstick: change to new flag variable
isdn: change to new flag variable
ieee802154: change to new flag variable
ide: change to new flag variable
hwmon: change to new flag variable
dma: change to new flag variable
char: change to new flag variable
fs: change to new flag variable
xtensa: change to new flag variable
um: change to new flag variables
s390: change to new flag variable
mips: change to new flag variable
...
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/hwmon/Makefile
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Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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This patch enables gcov kernel profiling over the whole kernel for sh.
Profiling of specific files individually already worked. A handful of
files have to be explicitly excluded from the profiling to avoid
breaking things, notably pmb.c.
Signed-off-by: Chris Smith <chris.smith@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.
The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.
New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.
The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.
Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.
Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.
===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
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nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
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*off += E
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func(..., off, ...)
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E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
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*off += E
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func(..., off, ...)
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E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};
@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};
@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};
@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};
@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};
// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};
@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};
// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};
// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};
// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};
@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};
// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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The gcov-kernel infrastructure expects that each object file is loaded
only once. This may not be true, e.g. when loading multiple kernel
modules which are linked to the same object file. As a result, loading
such kernel modules will result in incorrect gcov results while unloading
will cause a null-pointer dereference.
This patch fixes these problems by changing the gcov-kernel infrastructure
so that multiple profiling data sets can be associated with one debugfs
entry. It applies to 2.6.36-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Werner Spies <werner.spies@thalesgroup.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
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Make it possible to enable GCOV code coverage measurement on powerpc.
Lightly tested on 64-bit, seems to work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes
include disabling profiling for:
* arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed:
not linked to main kernel
* arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet:
profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context)
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
kernel. gcov may be useful for:
* debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
* test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
* minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
associated code is never run?)
The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:
* change kbuild to include profiling flags
* provide functions needed by profiling code
* present profiling data as files in debugfs
Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
"-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
others which require adjustment of architecture code.
For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
text).
[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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