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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 22:17:38 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Enable measuring the kernel's Source-based Code Coverage and MC/DC with Clang
On 2024-10-03 18:29, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> ...
>>> I was able to successfully build that same configuration and setup with
>>> my primary workstation, which is much beefier. Unfortunately, the
>>> resulting kernel did not boot with my usual VM testing setup. I will see
>>> if I can narrow down a particular configuration option that causes this
>>> tomorrow because I did a test with defconfig +
>>> CONFIG_LLVM_COV_PROFILE_ALL and it booted fine. Perhaps some other
>>> option that is not compatible with this? I'll follow up with more
>>> information as I have it.
>>
>> Good to hear that you've run it and thanks for reporting the booting issue.
>> You may send me the config if appropriate and I'll also take a look.
>
> I seem to have narrowed down it to a few different configurations on top
> of x86_64_defconfig but I will include the full bad configuration as an
> attachment just in case anything else is relevant.
>
> $ echo 'CONFIG_LLVM_COV_KERNEL=y
> CONFIG_LLVM_COV_PROFILE_ALL=y' >kernel/configs/llvm_cov.config
>
> $ echo CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y >kernel/configs/fortify_source.config
>
> $ echo CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y >arch/x86/configs/amd_mem_encrypt.config
>
Chuck and I can confirm the issue is reproducible these options, and we
are still looking into it. Thanks for catching this!
> ...
>
> Another thing I noticed with this series is there is no entries added to
> MAINTAINERS. Who is going to be responsible for maintaining this code?
>
We are going to add the following as the fifth patch in v3:
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a097afd76..55438cb90 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -13262,6 +13262,12 @@ F: include/net/llc*
F: include/uapi/linux/llc.h
F: net/llc/
+LLVM-COV BASED KERNEL PROFILING
+M: Wentao Zhang <wentaoz5@...inois.edu>
+M: Chuck Wolber <chuck.wolber@...ing.com>
+S: Maintained
+F: kernel/llvm-cov/
+
LM73 HARDWARE MONITOR DRIVER
M: Guillaume Ligneul <guillaume.ligneul@...il.com>
L: linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Other than the booting issue, v3 is ready and being tested locally.
Thanks,
Wentao
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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