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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-07-17 12:48:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-07-17 12:48:06 -0700
commitccbb22b9ab86a050584804b84007e0365242b034 (patch)
tree2ea3c169a73db4af9894276eb3827442291dedec /Documentation
parent00397e74e37a1285baee8678085297a330a6e2ce (diff)
parentdf4b0807ca1a62822342d404b863eff933d15762 (diff)
Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-fixes-5.14-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull kunit fixes from Shuah Khan: "Fixes to kunit tool and documentation: - fix asserts on older python versions - fixes to misleading error messages when TAP header format is incorrect or when file is missing - documentation fix: drop obsolete information about uml_abort coverage - remove unnecessary annotations" * tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-fixes-5.14-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: kunit: tool: Assert the version requirement kunit: tool: remove unnecessary "annotations" import Documentation: kunit: drop obsolete note about uml_abort for coverage kunit: tool: Fix error messages for cases of no tests and wrong TAP header
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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.