[PATCH v5 30/31] gcc-plugins: allow to enable GCC_PLUGINS for COMPILE_TEST

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Mon May 28 2018 - 05:25:14 EST


Now that the compiler's plugin support is checked in Kconfig,
all{yes,mod}config will not be bothered.

Remove 'depends on !COMPILE_TEST' for GCC_PLUGINS.

'depends on !COMPILE_TEST' for the following three are still kept:
GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE

Kees suggested to do so because the first two are too noisy, and the
last one would reduce the compile test coverage. I commented the
reasons in arch/Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v5: None
Changes in v4: None
Changes in v3:
- Add comment about reason

Changes in v2: None

arch/Kconfig | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 6051386..e9475d0 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -420,7 +420,6 @@ menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
bool "GCC plugins"
depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
depends on PLUGIN_HOSTCC != ""
- depends on !COMPILE_TEST
help
GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
@@ -430,7 +429,7 @@ menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
depends on GCC_PLUGINS
- depends on !COMPILE_TEST
+ depends on !COMPILE_TEST # too noisy
help
The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
M = E - N + 2P
@@ -497,7 +496,7 @@ config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL
config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
- depends on !COMPILE_TEST
+ depends on !COMPILE_TEST # too noisy
help
This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the
structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be
@@ -537,7 +536,7 @@ config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization"
depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
- depends on !COMPILE_TEST
+ depends on !COMPILE_TEST # do not reduce test coverage
help
If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a
best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized
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