From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757451AbZELPj4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 11:39:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755588AbZELPjR (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 11:39:17 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.137]:38059 "EHLO mtagate4.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753229AbZELPjO (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 11:39:14 -0400 Message-Id: <20090512153851.939166562@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-1 Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:38:51 +0200 From: Peter Oberparleiter To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Huang Ying , Li Wei , Michael Ellerman , Ingo Molnar , Heiko Carstens , Martin Schwidefsky Subject: [PATCH 0/4] gcov kernel support Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patchset implements support for performing kernel code coverage measurements based on gcc's gcov mechanism. It can be used to improve kernel code quality by identifying code parts which are not exercised during test cases. Patch base is 2.6.30-rc5. Changes since last version: * updated to 2.6.30-rc5 * moved __ctors_start and __ctors_end declaration to include/asm-generic/sections.h Patch overview: [PATCH 1/4] kernel: constructor support [PATCH 2/4] seq_file: add function to write binary data [PATCH 3/4] gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure [PATCH 4/4] gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64 For more information see Documentation/gcov.txt and the previous post: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123565658224661