From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] gcov: more cleanup
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 13:06:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160902120609.GQ21282@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10615e3e-0a17-b3c9-d437-6e6d09704aae@citrix.com>
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 01:04:45PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 02/09/16 12:47, Wei Liu wrote:
> > This series further cleans up existing gcov code. It should be now clear that
> > Xen's gcov is using gcc 3.4 format.
> >
> > I have tried to integrate gcc 4.7 format. The amount of work is moderate in
> > terms of coding effort, but I now believe it is a mistake to have invented xen
> > specific format which is in fact tied to gcc 3.4. I can't map gcc 4.7 format to
> > Xen's own format, so I stop here.
>
> Given that the interface has clearly bitrotten since it was first
> introduced, I think it is reasonable to declare amnesty to fix it properly.
>
> As the format is chosen at configure time, I think it is reasonable for
> the Xen interface to just hand back blobs, and require the tools in dom0
> to know how to interpret them.
>
Yes. I think that's how I would do it. But I don't have time for it now.
Wei.
> ~Andrew
_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-02 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-02 11:47 [PATCH 0/5] gcov: more cleanup Wei Liu
2016-09-02 11:47 ` [PATCH 1/5] xen: add tainted state and show warning is gcov is enabled Wei Liu
2016-09-02 11:56 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-02 12:01 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-02 12:06 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-02 12:13 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-09-02 12:26 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-02 12:30 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-09-02 13:34 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-02 13:21 ` Julien Grall
2016-09-02 13:34 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-02 11:47 ` [PATCH 2/5] gcov: collect more sections to constructor list Wei Liu
2016-09-02 11:58 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-02 12:12 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-05 10:10 ` Julien Grall
2016-09-02 11:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] xen: replace TEST_COVERAGE with CONFIG_GCOV Wei Liu
2016-09-02 11:59 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-19 14:30 ` Ian Jackson
2016-09-02 11:47 ` [PATCH 4/5] gcov: add option to determine gcov format Wei Liu
2016-09-02 12:01 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-02 12:08 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-02 15:43 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-06 8:34 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-02 11:47 ` [PATCH 5/5] gcov: split out gcc version specific stuff Wei Liu
2016-09-02 12:04 ` [PATCH 0/5] gcov: more cleanup Andrew Cooper
2016-09-02 12:06 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-09-02 12:15 ` Andrew Cooper
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20160902120609.GQ21282@citrix.com \
--to=wei.liu2@citrix.com \
--cc=andrew.cooper3@citrix.com \
--cc=xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).