From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:28:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3F6AD5.1030703@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090620101424.GA21928@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/linus/7bf99fb673f18408be1ebc958321ef4c3f6da9e2
>> Commit: 7bf99fb673f18408be1ebc958321ef4c3f6da9e2
>> Parent: 2521f2c228ad750701ba4702484e31d876dbc386
>> Author: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> AuthorDate: Wed Jun 17 16:28:09 2009 -0700
>> Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>> CommitDate: Thu Jun 18 13:03:58 2009 -0700
>>
>> gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64
>>
>> Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes
>> include disabling profiling for:
>>
>> * arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed:
>> not linked to main kernel
>> * arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet:
>> profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context)
>
> This feature crashes on bootup:
I can recreate the crash using your config. It looks like another object file in arch/x86 is incompatible with gcov profiling (most likely due to special stack usage) and needs to be excluded from profiling. I'm working on identifying this file but it will take a bit more time.
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[not found] <200906182200.n5IM0jFq007278@hera.kernel.org>
2009-06-20 10:14 ` gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64 Ingo Molnar
2009-06-22 11:28 ` Peter Oberparleiter [this message]
2009-06-22 10:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23 7:42 ` Peter Oberparleiter
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