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Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux kernel. gcov may be useful for: * debugging (has this code been reached at all?) * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?) * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the associated code is never run?) The profiling patch incorporates the following changes: * change kbuild to include profiling flags * provide functions needed by profiling code * present profiling data as files in debugfs Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/ run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and others which require adjustment of architecture code. For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes. This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help text). [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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823 B
C
31 lines
823 B
C
#ifndef __LINUX_COMPILER_H
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#error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-gcc3.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
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#endif
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#if __GNUC_MINOR__ < 2
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# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it.
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#endif
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#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3
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# define __used __attribute__((__used__))
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#else
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# define __used __attribute__((__unused__))
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#endif
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#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4
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#define __must_check __attribute__((warn_unused_result))
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#endif
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#ifdef CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
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# if __GNUC_MINOR__ < 4
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# error "GCOV profiling support for gcc versions below 3.4 not included"
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# endif /* __GNUC_MINOR__ */
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#endif /* CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL */
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/*
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* A trick to suppress uninitialized variable warning without generating any
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* code
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*/
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#define uninitialized_var(x) x = x
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#define __always_inline inline __attribute__((always_inline))
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