The patch titled
gcov: fix documentation
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
gcov-fix-documentation.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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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
origin.patch
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