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authorDaniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>2021-06-23 13:17:21 -0700
committerShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>2021-07-12 13:54:12 -0600
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Documentation: kunit: drop obsolete note about uml_abort for coverage
Commit b6d5799b0b58 ("kunit: Add 'kunit_shutdown' option") changes KUnit to call kernel_halt() by default when done testing. This fixes the issue with not having .gcda files due to not calling atexit() handlers, and therefore we can stop recommending people manually tweak UML code. The need to use older versions of GCC (<=6) remains however, due to linktime issues, same as before. Note: There also might still be issues with .gcda files as well in newer versions. Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -86,19 +86,7 @@ Generating code coverage reports under UML
.. note::
TODO(brendanhiggins@google.com): There are various issues with UML and
versions of gcc 7 and up. You're likely to run into missing ``.gcda``
- files or compile errors. We know one `faulty GCC commit
- <https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/8c9434c2f9358b8b8bad2c1990edf10a21645f9d>`_
- but not how we'd go about getting this fixed. The compile errors still
- need some investigation.
-
-.. note::
- TODO(brendanhiggins@google.com): for recent versions of Linux
- (5.10-5.12, maybe earlier), there's a bug with gcov counters not being
- flushed in UML. This translates to very low (<1%) reported coverage. This is
- related to the above issue and can be worked around by replacing the
- one call to ``uml_abort()`` (it's in ``os_dump_core()``) with a plain
- ``exit()``.
-
+ files or compile errors.
This is different from the "normal" way of getting coverage information that is
documented in Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst.