Re: [PATCH] gcov: fix clang-11+ support

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Fri Mar 12 2021 - 15:47:57 EST


On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:14 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:58 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:21:39AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > LLVM changed the expected function signatures for llvm_gcda_start_file()
> > > and llvm_gcda_emit_function() in the clang-11 release. Users of clang-11
> > > or newer may have noticed their kernels failing to boot due to a panic
> > > when enabling CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y +CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y. Fix up
> > > the function signatures so calling these functions doesn't panic the
> > > kernel.
> > >
> > > When we drop clang-10 support from the kernel, we should carefully
> > > update the original implementations to try to preserve git blame,
> > > deleting these implementations.
> > >
> > > Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/rGcdd683b516d147925212724b09ec6fb792a40041
> > > Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/rG13a633b438b6500ecad9e4f936ebadf3411d0f44
> > > Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi<psodagud@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I can reproduce the panic (as a boot hang) in QEMU before this patch and
> > it is resolved after it so:
> >
> > Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > However, the duplication hurts :( would it potentially be better to just
> > do the full update to clang-11+ and require it for CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL?
> >
> > depends on CC_IS_GCC || CLANG_VERSION >= 110000?
>
> I'm not opposed, and value your input on the matter. Either way, this
> will need to be back ported to stable. Should we be concerned with
> users of stable's branches before we mandated clang-10 as the minimum
> supported version?
>
> commit 1f7a44f63e6c ("compiler-clang: add build check for clang 10.0.1")
>
> first landed in v5.10-rc1. Does not exist in v5.4.y. The diff you
> suggest is certainly easier to review to observe the differences, and
> I we don't have users of the latest Android or CrOS kernels using
> older clang, but I suspect there may be older kernel versions where if
> they try to upgrade their version of clang, GCOV support will regress
> for them. Though, I guess that's fine since either approach will fix
> this for them. I guess if they don't want to upgrade from clang-10 say
> for example, then this approach can be backported to stable.

Thinking more about this over lunch; what are your thoughts on a V2
that does this first, then what you suggest as a second patch on top,
with the first tagged for inclusion into stable, but the second one
not? Hopefully maintainers don't consider that too much churn?

>
> >
> > > ---
> > > kernel/gcov/clang.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/gcov/clang.c b/kernel/gcov/clang.c
> > > index c94b820a1b62..20e6760ec05d 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/gcov/clang.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/gcov/clang.c
> > > @@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ struct gcov_fn_info {
> > >
> > > u32 num_counters;
> > > u64 *counters;
> > > +#if __clang_major__ < 11
> > > const char *function_name;
> > > +#endif
> > > };
> > >
> > > static struct gcov_info *current_info;
> > > @@ -105,6 +107,7 @@ void llvm_gcov_init(llvm_gcov_callback writeout, llvm_gcov_callback flush)
> > > }
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(llvm_gcov_init);
> > >
> > > +#if __clang_major__ < 11
> > > void llvm_gcda_start_file(const char *orig_filename, const char version[4],
> > > u32 checksum)
> > > {
> > > @@ -113,7 +116,17 @@ void llvm_gcda_start_file(const char *orig_filename, const char version[4],
> > > current_info->checksum = checksum;
> > > }
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(llvm_gcda_start_file);
> > > +#else
> > > +void llvm_gcda_start_file(const char *orig_filename, u32 version, u32 checksum)
> > > +{
> > > + current_info->filename = orig_filename;
> > > + current_info->version = version;
> > > + current_info->checksum = checksum;
> > > +}
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(llvm_gcda_start_file);
> > > +#endif
> > >
> > > +#if __clang_major__ < 11
> > > void llvm_gcda_emit_function(u32 ident, const char *function_name,
> > > u32 func_checksum, u8 use_extra_checksum, u32 cfg_checksum)
> > > {
> > > @@ -133,6 +146,24 @@ void llvm_gcda_emit_function(u32 ident, const char *function_name,
> > > list_add_tail(&info->head, &current_info->functions);
> > > }
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(llvm_gcda_emit_function);
> > > +#else
> > > +void llvm_gcda_emit_function(u32 ident, u32 func_checksum,
> > > + u8 use_extra_checksum, u32 cfg_checksum)
> > > +{
> > > + struct gcov_fn_info *info = kzalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +
> > > + if (!info)
> > > + return;
> > > +
> > > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->head);
> > > + info->ident = ident;
> > > + info->checksum = func_checksum;
> > > + info->use_extra_checksum = use_extra_checksum;
> > > + info->cfg_checksum = cfg_checksum;
> > > + list_add_tail(&info->head, &current_info->functions);
> > > +}
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(llvm_gcda_emit_function);
> > > +#endif
> > >
> > > void llvm_gcda_emit_arcs(u32 num_counters, u64 *counters)
> > > {
> > > @@ -295,6 +326,7 @@ void gcov_info_add(struct gcov_info *dst, struct gcov_info *src)
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > +#if __clang_major__ < 11
> > > static struct gcov_fn_info *gcov_fn_info_dup(struct gcov_fn_info *fn)
> > > {
> > > size_t cv_size; /* counter values size */
> > > @@ -322,6 +354,28 @@ static struct gcov_fn_info *gcov_fn_info_dup(struct gcov_fn_info *fn)
> > > kfree(fn_dup);
> > > return NULL;
> > > }
> > > +#else
> > > +static struct gcov_fn_info *gcov_fn_info_dup(struct gcov_fn_info *fn)
> > > +{
> > > + size_t cv_size; /* counter values size */
> > > + struct gcov_fn_info *fn_dup = kmemdup(fn, sizeof(*fn),
> > > + GFP_KERNEL);
> > > + if (!fn_dup)
> > > + return NULL;
> > > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fn_dup->head);
> > > +
> > > + cv_size = fn->num_counters * sizeof(fn->counters[0]);
> > > + fn_dup->counters = vmalloc(cv_size);
> > > + if (!fn_dup->counters) {
> > > + kfree(fn_dup);
> > > + return NULL;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + memcpy(fn_dup->counters, fn->counters, cv_size);
> > > +
> > > + return fn_dup;
> > > +}
> > > +#endif
> > >
> > > /**
> > > * gcov_info_dup - duplicate profiling data set
> > > @@ -362,6 +416,7 @@ struct gcov_info *gcov_info_dup(struct gcov_info *info)
> > > * gcov_info_free - release memory for profiling data set duplicate
> > > * @info: profiling data set duplicate to free
> > > */
> > > +#if __clang_major__ < 11
> > > void gcov_info_free(struct gcov_info *info)
> > > {
> > > struct gcov_fn_info *fn, *tmp;
> > > @@ -375,6 +430,20 @@ void gcov_info_free(struct gcov_info *info)
> > > kfree(info->filename);
> > > kfree(info);
> > > }
> > > +#else
> > > +void gcov_info_free(struct gcov_info *info)
> > > +{
> > > + struct gcov_fn_info *fn, *tmp;
> > > +
> > > + list_for_each_entry_safe(fn, tmp, &info->functions, head) {
> > > + vfree(fn->counters);
> > > + list_del(&fn->head);
> > > + kfree(fn);
> > > + }
> > > + kfree(info->filename);
> > > + kfree(info);
> > > +}
> > > +#endif
> > >
> > > #define ITER_STRIDE PAGE_SIZE
> > >
> > >
> > > base-commit: f78d76e72a4671ea52d12752d92077788b4f5d50
> > > --
> > > 2.31.0.rc2.261.g7f71774620-goog
> > >
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers



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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers