linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] no_profile fn attr and Kconfig for GCOV+PGO

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Date:   Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:52:22 -0700
From:   Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Bill Wendling <wcw@...gle.com>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        x86@...nel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Martin Liska <mliska@...e.cz>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        johannes.berg@...el.com, linux-toolchains@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] no_profile fn attr and Kconfig for GCOV+PGO

On 2021-06-18, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>When we say noinstr, we mean noinstr.  GCOV and PGO can both instrument
>functions. Add a new function annotation __no_profile that expands to
>__attribute__((__no_profile__)) and Kconfig value
>CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR.
>
>Base is
>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=for-next/clang/pgo.
>
>Nick Desaulniers (2):
>  compiler_attributes.h: define __no_profile, add to noinstr
>  Kconfig: CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR, depend on for GCOV and PGO
>
> include/linux/compiler_attributes.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> include/linux/compiler_types.h      |  2 +-
> init/Kconfig                        |  3 +++
> kernel/gcov/Kconfig                 |  1 +
> kernel/pgo/Kconfig                  |  3 ++-
> 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
>base-commit: 4356bc4c0425c81e204f561acf4dd0095544a6cb
>-- 
>2.32.0.288.g62a8d224e6-goog
>

Thanks for the attribute work in clang and kernel! Hope we can use clang
PGO in 5.14...  (I am a casual contributor to clang PGO/coverage)