The patch titled gcov: fix documentation has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is gcov-fix-documentation.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: gcov: fix documentation From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Commonly available versions of cp and tar don't work well with special files created using seq_file. Mention this problem in the gcov documentation and update the helper script example to work around these problems. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/gcov.txt | 25 ++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/gcov.txt~gcov-fix-documentation Documentation/gcov.txt --- a/Documentation/gcov.txt~gcov-fix-documentation +++ a/Documentation/gcov.txt @@ -188,13 +188,18 @@ Solution: Exclude affected source files GCOV_PROFILE := n or GCOV_PROFILE_basename.o := n in the corresponding Makefile. +Problem: Files copied from sysfs appear empty or incomplete. +Cause: Due to the way seq_file works, some tools such as cp or tar + may not correctly copy files from sysfs. +Solution: Use 'cat' to read .gcda files and 'cp -d' to copy links. + Alternatively use the mechanism shown in Appendix B. + Appendix A: gather_on_build.sh ============================== Sample script to gather coverage meta files on the build machine (see 6a): - #!/bin/bash KSRC=$1 @@ -226,7 +231,7 @@ Appendix B: gather_on_test.sh Sample script to gather coverage data files on the test machine (see 6b): -#!/bin/bash +#!/bin/bash -e DEST=$1 GCDA=/sys/kernel/debug/gcov @@ -236,11 +241,13 @@ if [ -z "$DEST" ] ; then exit 1 fi -find $GCDA -name '*.gcno' -o -name '*.gcda' | tar cfz $DEST -T - +TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d) +echo Collecting data.. +find $GCDA -type d -exec mkdir -p $TEMPDIR/\{\} \; +find $GCDA -name '*.gcda' -exec sh -c 'cat < $0 > '$TEMPDIR'/$0' {} \; +find $GCDA -name '*.gcno' -exec sh -c 'cp -d $0 '$TEMPDIR'/$0' {} \; +tar czf $DEST -C $TEMPDIR sys +rm -rf $TEMPDIR -if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then - echo "$DEST successfully created, copy to build system and unpack with:" - echo " tar xfz $DEST" -else - echo "Could not create file $DEST" -fi +echo "$DEST successfully created, copy to build system and unpack with:" +echo " tar xfz $DEST" _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are gcov-fix-__ctors_start-alignment.patch gcov-fix-documentation.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html