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Message-ID: <4AA4C354.4040002@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:24:52 +0200
From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 0/5] gcov: integrate gcov into kbuild
Amerigo Wang wrote:
> This patchset is mainly to integrate gcov into kbuild system, so that
> we can use "make foo/bar.c.gcov" to get the gcov files.
> Also moves the useful scripts in gcov.txt into tools/gcov/ direcotry.
Interesting approach - this should definitely make it more easy for
developers to get coverage data for their code. A couple of
thoughts/observations:
- does not work when compiling with a separate build directory (make O=)
/sys/kernel/debug/gcov//mnt/out//mnt/linux-2.6.gcno:cannot open graph file
make[2]: *** [init/main.c.gcov] Error 1
make[1]: *** [init/main.c.gcov] Error 2
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
This is most likely due to target_base_name being an absolute path
(relative to srctree) in case build and source directories are different.
- gcov call should use option -p, otherwise gcov may overwrite .gcov
files if a .c file includes two .h files from different directories.
- an option to generate .gcov files for all .c files in a subdirectory
would be nice
Regards,
Peter Oberparleiter
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