linux.git/kernel/gcov, branch v6.18.21

gcov: add support for GCC 15

2025-11-10T05:19:44+00:00

Using gcov on kernels compiled with GCC 15 results in truncated 16-byte
long .gcda files with no usable data.  To fix this, update GCOV_COUNTERS
to match the value defined by GCC 15.

Tested with GCC 14.3.0 and GCC 15.2.0.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251028115125.1319410-1-oberpar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Reported-by: Matthieu Baerts 
Closes: https://github.com/linux-test-project/lcov/issues/445
Tested-by: Matthieu Baerts 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30

2025-04-30T19:53:35+00:00

Commit a3e8fe814ad1 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1")
raised the minimum compiler version as enforced by Kbuild to gcc-8.1
and clang-15 for x86.

This is actually the same gcc version that has been discussed as the
minimum for all architectures several times in the past, with little
objection. A previous concern was the kernel for SLE15-SP7 needing to
be built with gcc-7. As this ended up still using linux-6.4 and there
is no plan for an SP8, this is no longer a problem.

Change it for all architectures and adjust the documentation accordingly.
A few version checks can be removed in the process.  The binutils
version 2.30 is the lowest version used in combination with gcc-8 on
common distros, so use that as the corresponding minimum.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240925150059.3955569-32-ardb+git@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/871q7yxrgv.wl-tiwai@suse.de/
Acked-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

gcov: clang: use correct function param names

2025-01-25T06:47:27+00:00

Fix the function parameter names to match the function so that
the kernel-doc warnings disappear.

clang.c:273: warning: Function parameter or struct member 'dst' not described in 'gcov_info_add'
clang.c:273: warning: Function parameter or struct member 'src' not described in 'gcov_info_add'
clang.c:273: warning: Excess function parameter 'dest' description in 'gcov_info_add'
clang.c:273: warning: Excess function parameter 'source' description in 'gcov_info_add'

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250111062944.910638-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Bill Wendling 
Cc: Justin Stitt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: add support for GCC 14

2024-06-15T17:43:06+00:00

Using gcov on kernels compiled with GCC 14 results in truncated 16-byte
long .gcda files with no usable data.  To fix this, update GCOV_COUNTERS
to match the value defined by GCC 14.

Tested with GCC versions 14.1.0 and 13.2.0.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240610092743.1609845-1-oberpar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Reported-by: Allison Henderson 
Reported-by: Chuck Lever III 
Tested-by: Chuck Lever 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: annotate struct gcov_iterator with __counted_by

2023-10-18T21:43:22+00:00

Prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the __counted_by
attribute.  Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by can have
their accesses bounds-checked at run-time checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS
(for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family
functions).

As found with Coccinelle[1], add __counted_by for struct gcov_iterator.

[1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230922175220.work.327-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva 
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Tom Rix 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: shut up missing prototype warnings for internal stubs

2023-08-18T17:18:58+00:00

gcov uses global functions that are called from generated code, but these
have no prototype in a header, which causes a W=1 build warning:

kernel/gcov/gcc_base.c:12:6: error: no previous prototype for '__gcov_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
kernel/gcov/gcc_base.c:40:6: error: no previous prototype for '__gcov_flush' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
kernel/gcov/gcc_base.c:46:6: error: no previous prototype for '__gcov_merge_add' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
kernel/gcov/gcc_base.c:52:6: error: no previous prototype for '__gcov_merge_single' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]

Just turn off these warnings unconditionally for the two files that
contain them.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0820010f-e9dc-779d-7924-49c7df446bce@linux.ibm.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230725123042.2269077-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: add support for checksum field

2022-12-21T22:31:52+00:00

In GCC version 12.1 a checksum field was added.

This patch fixes a kernel crash occurring during boot when using
gcov-kernel with GCC version 12.2.  The crash occurred on a system running
on i.MX6SX.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221220102318.3418501-1-rickaran@axis.com
Fixes: 977ef30a7d88 ("gcov: support GCC 12.1 and newer compilers")
Signed-off-by: Rickard x Andersson 
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Reviewed-by: Martin Liska 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: clang: fix the buffer overflow issue

2022-11-23T02:50:41+00:00

Currently, in clang version of gcov code when module is getting removed
gcov_info_add() incorrectly adds the sfn_ptr->counter to all the
dst->functions and it result in the kernel panic in below crash report. 
Fix this by properly handling it.

[    8.899094][  T599] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffffff80461cc000
[    8.899100][  T599] Mem abort info:
[    8.899102][  T599]   ESR = 0x9600004f
[    8.899103][  T599]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[    8.899105][  T599]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[    8.899107][  T599]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[    8.899108][  T599]   FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault
[    8.899110][  T599] Data abort info:
[    8.899111][  T599]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004f
[    8.899113][  T599]   CM = 0, WnR = 1
[    8.899114][  T599] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000ab8de000
[    8.899116][  T599] [ffffff80461cc000] pgd=18000009ffcde003, p4d=18000009ffcde003, pud=18000009ffcde003, pmd=18000009ffcad003, pte=00600000c61cc787
[    8.899124][  T599] Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[    8.899265][  T599] Skip md ftrace buffer dump for: 0x1609e0
....
..,
[    8.899544][  T599] CPU: 7 PID: 599 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G S         OE     5.15.41-android13-8-g38e9b1af6bce #1
[    8.899547][  T599] Hardware name: XXX (DT)
[    8.899549][  T599] pstate: 82400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[    8.899551][  T599] pc : gcov_info_add+0x9c/0xb8
[    8.899557][  T599] lr : gcov_event+0x28c/0x6b8
[    8.899559][  T599] sp : ffffffc00e733b00
[    8.899560][  T599] x29: ffffffc00e733b00 x28: ffffffc00e733d30 x27: ffffffe8dc297470
[    8.899563][  T599] x26: ffffffe8dc297000 x25: ffffffe8dc297000 x24: ffffffe8dc297000
[    8.899566][  T599] x23: ffffffe8dc0a6200 x22: ffffff880f68bf20 x21: 0000000000000000
[    8.899569][  T599] x20: ffffff880f68bf00 x19: ffffff8801babc00 x18: ffffffc00d7f9058
[    8.899572][  T599] x17: 0000000000088793 x16: ffffff80461cbe00 x15: 9100052952800785
[    8.899575][  T599] x14: 0000000000000200 x13: 0000000000000041 x12: 9100052952800785
[    8.899577][  T599] x11: ffffffe8dc297000 x10: ffffffe8dc297000 x9 : ffffff80461cbc80
[    8.899580][  T599] x8 : ffffff8801babe80 x7 : ffffffe8dc2ec000 x6 : ffffffe8dc2ed000
[    8.899583][  T599] x5 : 000000008020001f x4 : fffffffe2006eae0 x3 : 000000008020001f
[    8.899586][  T599] x2 : ffffff8027c49200 x1 : ffffff8801babc20 x0 : ffffff80461cb3a0
[    8.899589][  T599] Call trace:
[    8.899590][  T599]  gcov_info_add+0x9c/0xb8
[    8.899592][  T599]  gcov_module_notifier+0xbc/0x120
[    8.899595][  T599]  blocking_notifier_call_chain+0xa0/0x11c
[    8.899598][  T599]  do_init_module+0x2a8/0x33c
[    8.899600][  T599]  load_module+0x23cc/0x261c
[    8.899602][  T599]  __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x158/0x194
[    8.899604][  T599]  invoke_syscall+0x94/0x2bc
[    8.899607][  T599]  el0_svc_common+0x1d8/0x34c
[    8.899609][  T599]  do_el0_svc+0x40/0x54
[    8.899611][  T599]  el0_svc+0x94/0x2f0
[    8.899613][  T599]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xec
[    8.899615][  T599]  el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8
[    8.899618][  T599] Code: f905f56c f86e69ec f86e6a0f 8b0c01ec (f82e6a0c)
[    8.899620][  T599] ---[ end trace ed5218e9e5b6e2e6 ]---

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1668020497-13142-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com
Fixes: e178a5beb369 ("gcov: clang support")
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha 
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Tom Rix 
Cc: 	[5.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: support GCC 12.1 and newer compilers

2022-10-21T04:27:22+00:00

Starting with GCC 12.1, the created .gcda format can't be read by gcov
tool.  There are 2 significant changes to the .gcda file format that
need to be supported:

a) [gcov: Use system IO buffering]
   (23eb66d1d46a34cb28c4acbdf8a1deb80a7c5a05) changed that all sizes in
   the format are in bytes and not in words (4B)

b) [gcov: make profile merging smarter]
   (72e0c742bd01f8e7e6dcca64042b9ad7e75979de) add a new checksum to the
   file header.

Tested with GCC 7.5, 10.4, 12.2 and the current master.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/624bda92-f307-30e9-9aaa-8cc678b2dfb2@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Martin Liska 
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

gcov: Remove compiler version check

2021-12-02T08:25:21+00:00

The minimum supported version of LLVM has been raised to 11.0.0, meaning
this check is always true, so it can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda 
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown 
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada