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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>
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Dmitry Vyukov 2020-01-30 22:17:35 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2b755626ca
commit 43e76af85f
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kernel/Makefile
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@ -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

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lib/Makefile
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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT_rbtree.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_list_debug.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_debugobjects.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_dynamic_debug.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_fault-inject.o := n
# Early boot use of cmdline, don't instrument it
ifdef CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT

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mm/Makefile
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@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT_kmemleak.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_memcontrol.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_mmzone.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_vmstat.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_failslab.o := n
CFLAGS_init-mm.o += $(call cc-disable-warning, override-init)
CFLAGS_init-mm.o += $(call cc-disable-warning, initializer-overrides)