Commit aa069a23 authored by Tri Vo's avatar Tri Vo Committed by Linus Torvalds

gcov: docs: add a note on GCC vs Clang differences

Document some things of note to gcov users:
1. GCC gcov and Clang llvm-cov tools are not compatible.
2. The use of GCC vs Clang is transparent at build-time.

Also adjust the documentation to account for the removal of config symbol
CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_AUTODETECT by commit 6a61b70b ("gcov: remove
CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_AUTODETECT").

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190318025411.98014-4-trong@android.comSigned-off-by: default avatarTri Vo <trong@android.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@android.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Petri Gynther <pgynther@google.com>
Cc: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@quicinc.com>
Cc: Trilok Soni <tsoni@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 826eba0d
......@@ -34,10 +34,6 @@ Configure the kernel with::
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y
select the gcc's gcov format, default is autodetect based on gcc version::
CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_AUTODETECT=y
and to get coverage data for the entire kernel::
CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y
......@@ -169,6 +165,20 @@ b) gcov is run on the BUILD machine
[user@build] gcov -o /tmp/coverage/tmp/out/init main.c
Note on compilers
-----------------
GCC and LLVM gcov tools are not necessarily compatible. Use gcov_ to work with
GCC-generated .gcno and .gcda files, and use llvm-cov_ for Clang.
.. _gcov: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
.. _llvm-cov: https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-cov.html
Build differences between GCC and Clang gcov are handled by Kconfig. It
automatically selects the appropriate gcov format depending on the detected
toolchain.
Troubleshooting
---------------
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