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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	AndrewCooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	philippe.gabriel@citrix.com, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] gcov: add new interface and 3.4 and 4.7 format support
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:50:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161012135051.GS3687@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161012134651.GF27599@char.us.oracle.com>

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:46:51AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 02:40:08PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:29:04AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > Wouldn't it be just as easy, and more useful, to set a "has been
> > > > livepatched" flag, and return errors for all gcov hypercalls if its' set?
> > > > 
> > > > I would expect most users to want to build a single hypervisor that can
> > > > be used for both gcov testing and live patching (under different
> > > > circumstances).
> > > 
> > > I actually would welcome livepatching and gcov to see if the test-cases I wrote
> > > cover most of the code.
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't follow. Gcov doesn't give you a call graph -- if that's what
> > you're after.
> 
> It gives me an idea which functions/branches have run (not the livepatch
> itself - just the infrastructure around adding a livepatch, doing ELF checks, etc).
> 
> And more importantly - which ones haven't run and need some more test-cases.
> 

Right. Thanks for the explanation. That would indeed be useful.

Wei.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-12 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-10  9:40 [PATCH v2 0/9] Rework gcov support in Xen Wei Liu
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] Kconfig: use tab instead of space Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:21   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] Kconfig: add BROKEN config Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:22   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] xen: delete gcno files in clean target Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:23   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] xen, tools: rip out old gcov implementation Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:24   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] gcov: add new interface and 3.4 and 4.7 format support Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:56   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 12:23     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-10 12:56       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 13:12         ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10 13:11     ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10 14:43       ` Wei Liu
2016-10-11 10:31   ` [PATCH v3] " Wei Liu
2016-10-12 12:42     ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 13:06       ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 13:11         ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 13:24         ` George Dunlap
2016-10-12 13:26           ` George Dunlap
2016-10-12 13:31             ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 13:33             ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 13:34             ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-12 13:41               ` George Dunlap
2016-10-12 13:43                 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-12 13:29           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-12 13:40             ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 13:46               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-12 13:50                 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-10-12 13:23       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-12 13:31         ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 13:44           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-12 14:08             ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 14:17             ` Martin Pohlack
2016-10-12 16:21               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-13  8:05                 ` Martin Pohlack
2016-10-12 15:33       ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 15:42         ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 17:07           ` Wei Liu
2016-10-13  8:29             ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-13  8:49               ` Wei Liu
2016-10-13  9:15                 ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-13  9:20                   ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] gcov: userspace tools to extract and split gcov data Wei Liu
2016-10-10 15:44   ` Ian Jackson
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] Config.mk: expand cc-ver a bit Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:57   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] Config.mk: introduce cc-ifversion Wei Liu
2016-10-10 12:00   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 13:18     ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10 13:22       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 13:24         ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] gcov: provide the capability to select gcov format automatically Wei Liu
2016-10-10 12:00   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Rework gcov support in Xen Ian Jackson
2016-10-10 15:58   ` Jan Beulich

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