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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v3 1/2] kcov: Make runtime functions noinstr-compatible
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 13:01:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200608110108.GB2497@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+Z+FFHFGSgEJGkd+zCBgUOck_odOf9_=5YQLNJQVMGNdw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 09:57:39AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:

> As a crazy idea: is it possible to employ objtool (linker script?) to
> rewrite all coverage calls to nops in the noinstr section? Or relocate
> to nop function?
> What we are trying to do is very static, it _should_ have been done
> during build. We don't have means in existing _compilers_ to do this,
> but maybe we could do it elsewhere during build?...

Let me try and figure out how to make objtool actually rewrite code.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-08 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-05  8:28 Marco Elver
2020-06-05  8:28 ` [PATCH -tip v3 2/2] kcov: Unconditionally add -fno-stack-protector to compiler options Marco Elver
2020-06-05 16:50   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-05 10:57 ` [PATCH -tip v3 1/2] kcov: Make runtime functions noinstr-compatible Dmitry Vyukov
2020-06-05 12:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-05 13:25     ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-06-07  9:37       ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-06-08  7:48         ` Marco Elver
2020-06-08  7:57           ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-06-08 11:01             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-06-11 21:55               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-11 21:58                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-12 11:34                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-12  4:04                 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-06-12 11:49                   ` Marco Elver
2020-06-13 17:24                     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-06-15  7:53                       ` Marco Elver
2020-06-15 14:29                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15 14:35                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15 14:53                           ` Marco Elver
2020-06-15 15:03                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15 15:20                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-17 14:32                                 ` Marco Elver
2020-06-17 14:49                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-17 15:19                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-17 15:19                                     ` Marco Elver
2020-06-17 15:55                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-17 16:36                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-17 18:06                                           ` Marco Elver
2020-06-15 14:54                         ` Peter Zijlstra

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