linux-toradex.git/kernel/gcov, branch v6.17-rc6

kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30

2025-04-30T19:53:35+00:00

Commit a3e8fe814ad1 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1")
raised the minimum compiler version as enforced by Kbuild to gcc-8.1
and clang-15 for x86.

This is actually the same gcc version that has been discussed as the
minimum for all architectures several times in the past, with little
objection. A previous concern was the kernel for SLE15-SP7 needing to
be built with gcc-7. As this ended up still using linux-6.4 and there
is no plan for an SP8, this is no longer a problem.

Change it for all architectures and adjust the documentation accordingly.
A few version checks can be removed in the process.  The binutils
version 2.30 is the lowest version used in combination with gcc-8 on
common distros, so use that as the corresponding minimum.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240925150059.3955569-32-ardb+git@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/871q7yxrgv.wl-tiwai@suse.de/
Acked-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

gcov: clang: use correct function param names

2025-01-25T06:47:27+00:00

Fix the function parameter names to match the function so that
the kernel-doc warnings disappear.

clang.c:273: warning: Function parameter or struct member 'dst' not described in 'gcov_info_add'
clang.c:273: warning: Function parameter or struct member 'src' not described in 'gcov_info_add'
clang.c:273: warning: Excess function parameter 'dest' description in 'gcov_info_add'
clang.c:273: warning: Excess function parameter 'source' description in 'gcov_info_add'

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250111062944.910638-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Bill Wendling 
Cc: Justin Stitt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: add support for GCC 14

2024-06-15T17:43:06+00:00

Using gcov on kernels compiled with GCC 14 results in truncated 16-byte
long .gcda files with no usable data.  To fix this, update GCOV_COUNTERS
to match the value defined by GCC 14.

Tested with GCC versions 14.1.0 and 13.2.0.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240610092743.1609845-1-oberpar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Reported-by: Allison Henderson 
Reported-by: Chuck Lever III 
Tested-by: Chuck Lever 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: annotate struct gcov_iterator with __counted_by

2023-10-18T21:43:22+00:00

Prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the __counted_by
attribute.  Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by can have
their accesses bounds-checked at run-time checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS
(for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family
functions).

As found with Coccinelle[1], add __counted_by for struct gcov_iterator.

[1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230922175220.work.327-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva 
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Tom Rix 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: shut up missing prototype warnings for internal stubs

2023-08-18T17:18:58+00:00

gcov uses global functions that are called from generated code, but these
have no prototype in a header, which causes a W=1 build warning:

kernel/gcov/gcc_base.c:12:6: error: no previous prototype for '__gcov_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
kernel/gcov/gcc_base.c:40:6: error: no previous prototype for '__gcov_flush' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
kernel/gcov/gcc_base.c:46:6: error: no previous prototype for '__gcov_merge_add' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
kernel/gcov/gcc_base.c:52:6: error: no previous prototype for '__gcov_merge_single' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]

Just turn off these warnings unconditionally for the two files that
contain them.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0820010f-e9dc-779d-7924-49c7df446bce@linux.ibm.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230725123042.2269077-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: add support for checksum field

2022-12-21T22:31:52+00:00

In GCC version 12.1 a checksum field was added.

This patch fixes a kernel crash occurring during boot when using
gcov-kernel with GCC version 12.2.  The crash occurred on a system running
on i.MX6SX.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221220102318.3418501-1-rickaran@axis.com
Fixes: 977ef30a7d88 ("gcov: support GCC 12.1 and newer compilers")
Signed-off-by: Rickard x Andersson 
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Reviewed-by: Martin Liska 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: clang: fix the buffer overflow issue

2022-11-23T02:50:41+00:00

Currently, in clang version of gcov code when module is getting removed
gcov_info_add() incorrectly adds the sfn_ptr->counter to all the
dst->functions and it result in the kernel panic in below crash report. 
Fix this by properly handling it.

[    8.899094][  T599] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffffff80461cc000
[    8.899100][  T599] Mem abort info:
[    8.899102][  T599]   ESR = 0x9600004f
[    8.899103][  T599]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[    8.899105][  T599]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[    8.899107][  T599]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[    8.899108][  T599]   FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault
[    8.899110][  T599] Data abort info:
[    8.899111][  T599]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004f
[    8.899113][  T599]   CM = 0, WnR = 1
[    8.899114][  T599] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000ab8de000
[    8.899116][  T599] [ffffff80461cc000] pgd=18000009ffcde003, p4d=18000009ffcde003, pud=18000009ffcde003, pmd=18000009ffcad003, pte=00600000c61cc787
[    8.899124][  T599] Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[    8.899265][  T599] Skip md ftrace buffer dump for: 0x1609e0
....
..,
[    8.899544][  T599] CPU: 7 PID: 599 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G S         OE     5.15.41-android13-8-g38e9b1af6bce #1
[    8.899547][  T599] Hardware name: XXX (DT)
[    8.899549][  T599] pstate: 82400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[    8.899551][  T599] pc : gcov_info_add+0x9c/0xb8
[    8.899557][  T599] lr : gcov_event+0x28c/0x6b8
[    8.899559][  T599] sp : ffffffc00e733b00
[    8.899560][  T599] x29: ffffffc00e733b00 x28: ffffffc00e733d30 x27: ffffffe8dc297470
[    8.899563][  T599] x26: ffffffe8dc297000 x25: ffffffe8dc297000 x24: ffffffe8dc297000
[    8.899566][  T599] x23: ffffffe8dc0a6200 x22: ffffff880f68bf20 x21: 0000000000000000
[    8.899569][  T599] x20: ffffff880f68bf00 x19: ffffff8801babc00 x18: ffffffc00d7f9058
[    8.899572][  T599] x17: 0000000000088793 x16: ffffff80461cbe00 x15: 9100052952800785
[    8.899575][  T599] x14: 0000000000000200 x13: 0000000000000041 x12: 9100052952800785
[    8.899577][  T599] x11: ffffffe8dc297000 x10: ffffffe8dc297000 x9 : ffffff80461cbc80
[    8.899580][  T599] x8 : ffffff8801babe80 x7 : ffffffe8dc2ec000 x6 : ffffffe8dc2ed000
[    8.899583][  T599] x5 : 000000008020001f x4 : fffffffe2006eae0 x3 : 000000008020001f
[    8.899586][  T599] x2 : ffffff8027c49200 x1 : ffffff8801babc20 x0 : ffffff80461cb3a0
[    8.899589][  T599] Call trace:
[    8.899590][  T599]  gcov_info_add+0x9c/0xb8
[    8.899592][  T599]  gcov_module_notifier+0xbc/0x120
[    8.899595][  T599]  blocking_notifier_call_chain+0xa0/0x11c
[    8.899598][  T599]  do_init_module+0x2a8/0x33c
[    8.899600][  T599]  load_module+0x23cc/0x261c
[    8.899602][  T599]  __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x158/0x194
[    8.899604][  T599]  invoke_syscall+0x94/0x2bc
[    8.899607][  T599]  el0_svc_common+0x1d8/0x34c
[    8.899609][  T599]  do_el0_svc+0x40/0x54
[    8.899611][  T599]  el0_svc+0x94/0x2f0
[    8.899613][  T599]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xec
[    8.899615][  T599]  el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8
[    8.899618][  T599] Code: f905f56c f86e69ec f86e6a0f 8b0c01ec (f82e6a0c)
[    8.899620][  T599] ---[ end trace ed5218e9e5b6e2e6 ]---

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1668020497-13142-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com
Fixes: e178a5beb369 ("gcov: clang support")
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha 
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Tom Rix 
Cc: 	[5.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: support GCC 12.1 and newer compilers

2022-10-21T04:27:22+00:00

Starting with GCC 12.1, the created .gcda format can't be read by gcov
tool.  There are 2 significant changes to the .gcda file format that
need to be supported:

a) [gcov: Use system IO buffering]
   (23eb66d1d46a34cb28c4acbdf8a1deb80a7c5a05) changed that all sizes in
   the format are in bytes and not in words (4B)

b) [gcov: make profile merging smarter]
   (72e0c742bd01f8e7e6dcca64042b9ad7e75979de) add a new checksum to the
   file header.

Tested with GCC 7.5, 10.4, 12.2 and the current master.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/624bda92-f307-30e9-9aaa-8cc678b2dfb2@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Martin Liska 
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: Remove compiler version check

2021-12-02T08:25:21+00:00

The minimum supported version of LLVM has been raised to 11.0.0, meaning
this check is always true, so it can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda 
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown 
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Kconfig: Introduce ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR and CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR

2021-06-22T18:07:18+00:00

We don't want compiler instrumentation to touch noinstr functions,
which are annotated with the no_profile_instrument_function function
attribute. Add a Kconfig test for this and make GCOV depend on it, and
in the future, PGO.

If an architecture is using noinstr, it should denote that via this
Kconfig value. That makes Kconfigs that depend on noinstr able to express
dependencies in an architecturally agnostic way.

Cc: Masahiro Yamada 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YMTn9yjuemKFLbws@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YMcssV%2Fn5IBGv4f0@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers 
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Acked-by: Mark Rutland 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210621231822.2848305-4-ndesaulniers@google.com