linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format

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Date:	Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:12:14 +0200
From:	Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jstancek@...hat.com, keescook@...omium.org,
	peter.oberparleiter@...ibm.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de, mgahagan@...hat.com,
	agospoda@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:31:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:27:05 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 14:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed,  4 Sep 2013 16:42:54 +0200 Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > A couple of little tweaks:
> > []
> > > +++ a/kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c
> > []
> > > @@ -267,8 +266,8 @@ struct gcov_info *gcov_info_dup(struct g
> > >  	if (!dup->filename)
> > >  		goto err_free;
> > >  
> > > -	dup->functions = kzalloc(sizeof(struct gcov_fn_info *) *
> > > -			info->n_functions, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +	dup->functions = kcalloc(sizeof(struct gcov_fn_info *),
> > > +				 info->n_functions, GFP_KERNEL);
> > 
> > kcalloc(n, size_t, flags)
> > 
> > 	dup->functions = kcalloc(info->n_functions,
> > 				 sizeof(struct gcov_fn_info *), GFP_KERNEL);
> > 
> 
> Already did that after checkpatch whined at me.  Stupid thing.

Many thanks Andrew and I'm really sorry about the "style problems". Lesson well
learned: use checkpatch before posting.

-- 
Frantisek Hrbata
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