Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/5] gcov: add option to determine gcov format

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 01:08:27PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 06:01:22AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 02.09.16 at 13:47, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Currently only gcc 3.4 format is supported.
> > 
> > Doesn't this patch contradict your coverage letter? Here you provide
> > means to add support for further formats, but there you said there's
> > no obvious route to that goal.
> > 
> 
> There is a way, we can ditch the old interface and just hand back the
> blob.
> 

Let me try to make myself clearer because now I reread my reply it
doesn't seem to convey my thought.

There are two issues:

1. The sysctl interface is tied to gcc 3.4 format.
2. The implementation inside Xen is tied to gcc 3.4 format.

My cover letter was referring to #1 because there is no way to fit newer
gcc format into the existing Xen sysctl coverage interface. To solve #1
I'm afraid we need to design new interfaces.

#2 is independent of #1. Regardless of what the sysctl interface looks
like, Xen needs to know which format to use (size of the structure,
offset of fields etc) in order to extract information.

This patch (sorta) deals with #2 and is one step towards dealing with
#1.

Wei.

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