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authorDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>2020-01-30 22:17:35 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-01-31 10:30:41 -0800
commit43e76af85fa7e75ac9b71fc2fcc250abb1889bff (patch)
tree6358b0f2cc3a12f9eebd30a1aabb527592cac666 /kernel
parent2b755626cad6d9dcbad09d022ba7bdfc39ed773d (diff)
downloadlinux-43e76af85fa7e75ac9b71fc2fcc250abb1889bff.tar.bz2
kcov: ignore fault-inject and stacktrace
Don't instrument 3 more files that contain debugging facilities and produce large amounts of uninteresting coverage for every syscall. The following snippets are sprinkled all over the place in kcov traces in a debugging kernel. We already try to disable instrumentation of stack unwinding code and of most debug facilities. I guess we did not use fault-inject.c at the time, and stacktrace.c was somehow missed (or something has changed in kernel/configs). This change both speeds up kcov (kernel doesn't need to store these PCs, user-space doesn't need to process them) and frees trace buffer capacity for more useful coverage. should_fail lib/fault-inject.c:149 fail_dump lib/fault-inject.c:45 stack_trace_save kernel/stacktrace.c:124 stack_trace_consume_entry kernel/stacktrace.c:86 stack_trace_consume_entry kernel/stacktrace.c:89 ... a hundred frames skipped ... stack_trace_consume_entry kernel/stacktrace.c:93 stack_trace_consume_entry kernel/stacktrace.c:86 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200116111449.217744-1-dvyukov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/Makefile1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index f2cc0d118a0b..4cb4130ced32 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT_softirq.o := n
# and produce insane amounts of uninteresting coverage.
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_module.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_extable.o := n
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT_stacktrace.o := n
# Don't self-instrument.
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_kcov.o := n
KASAN_SANITIZE_kcov.o := n