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gcov: exclude code operating in userspace from profiling 

Fix for this issue on x86_64:

rostedt@goodmis.org wrote:
> On bootup of the latest kernel my init segfaults. Debugging it,
> I found  that vread_tsc (a vsyscall) increments some strange
> kernel memory:
>
> 0000000000000000 <vread_tsc>:
>    0:   55                      push   %rbp
>    1:   48 ff 05 00 00 00 00    incq   0(%rip)
>                         # 8 <vread_tsc+0x8>
>                         4: R_X86_64_PC32        .bss+0x3c
>    8:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
>    b:   66 66 90                xchg   %ax,%ax
>    e:   48 ff 05 00 00 00 00    incq   0(%rip)
>                         # 15 <vread_tsc+0x15>
>                         11: R_X86_64_PC32       .bss+0x44
>   15:   66 66 90                xchg   %ax,%ax
>   18:   48 ff 05 00 00 00 00    incq   0(%rip)
>                         # 1f <vread_tsc+0x1f>
>                         1b: R_X86_64_PC32       .bss+0x4c
>   1f:   0f 31                   rdtsc
>
>
> Those "incq" is very bad to happen in vsyscall memory, since
> userspace can not modify it. You need to make something prevent
> profiling of vsyscall  memory (like I do with ftrace).

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Peter Oberparleiter 2009-07-05 12:08:06 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 28df30e61b
commit f386c61fe1
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@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ CFLAGS_tsc.o := $(nostackp)
CFLAGS_paravirt.o := $(nostackp)
GCOV_PROFILE_vsyscall_64.o := n
GCOV_PROFILE_hpet.o := n
GCOV_PROFILE_tsc.o := n
GCOV_PROFILE_paravirt.o := n
obj-y := process_$(BITS).o signal.o entry_$(BITS).o
obj-y += traps.o irq.o irq_$(BITS).o dumpstack_$(BITS).o