The patch titled
Subject: gcov: clang: fix clang-11+ build
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
gcov-clang-fix-clang-11-build.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/gcov-clang-fix-clang-11-build.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/gcov-clang-fix-clang-11-build.patch
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: gcov: clang: fix clang-11+ build
With clang-11+, the code is broken due to my kvmalloc() conversion (which
predated the clang-11 support code) leaving one vmalloc() in place. Fix
that.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210412214210.6e1ecca9cdc5.I24459763acf0591d5e6b31c7e3a59890d802f79c@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/gcov/clang.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/gcov/clang.c~gcov-clang-fix-clang-11-build
+++ a/kernel/gcov/clang.c
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static struct gcov_fn_info *gcov_fn_info
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fn_dup->head);
cv_size = fn->num_counters * sizeof(fn->counters[0]);
- fn_dup->counters = vmalloc(cv_size);
+ fn_dup->counters = kvmalloc(cv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fn_dup->counters) {
kfree(fn_dup);
return NULL;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are
gcov-clang-fix-clang-11-build.patch
gcov-combine-common-code.patch
gcov-simplify-buffer-allocation.patch
gcov-use-kvmalloc.patch
gdb-lx-symbols-store-the-abspath.patch
