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Message-ID: <4c05efefe278bc5b140dba40eb1d195cceb2e6ce.1717507310.git.dvyukov@google.com>
Date: Tue,  4 Jun 2024 15:45:05 +0200
From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To: tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, 
	dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller@...glegroups.com, elver@...gle.com, 
	glider@...gle.com, nogikh@...gle.com, tarasmadan@...gle.com, 
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] x86: Ignore stack unwinding in KCOV

Stack unwinding produces large amounts of uninteresting coverage.
It's called from KASAN kmalloc/kfree hooks, fault injection, etc.
It's not particularly useful and is not a function of system call args.
Ignore that code.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: syzkaller@...glegroups.com
---
 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
index 20a0dd51700a..cd49ebfae984 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ KMSAN_SANITIZE_sev.o					:= n
 # first second.
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_head$(BITS).o				:= n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_sev.o					:= n
+# These are called from save_stack_trace() on debug paths,
+# and produce large amounts of uninteresting coverage.
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT_stacktrace.o				:= n
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT_dumpstack.o				:= n
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT_dumpstack_$(BITS).o			:= n
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT_unwind_orc.o				:= n
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT_unwind_frame.o				:= n
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT_unwind_guess.o				:= n
 
 CFLAGS_irq.o := -I $(src)/../include/asm/trace
 
-- 
2.45.1.467.gbab1589fc0-goog


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