Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/9] Rework gcov support in Xen

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 10.10.16 at 17:47, <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH v2 0/9] Rework gcov support in Xen"):
>> Since the hypervisor interface is sysctl, we have the liberty to not
>> care about backward compatibility. This series completely rewrites the
>> gcov support inside Xen.
> 
> I have looked at these patches.  One of them seemed in my bailiwick -
> the libxc tools patch, which I have acked.
> 
> If you feel my ack is needed for any of the build system parts, please
> feel free to add it.  I've looked at those and they don't seem
> controversial to me.
> 
> Can someone hypervisor-side confirm that this functionality is really
> disabled when the Kconfig is off, and so we don't need to worry about
> its security status ?

Well, I think I've done so by acking most of the patches. But in
any event this

subdir-$(CONFIG_GCOV) += gcov

in xen/common/Makefile ensures none of the code in that directory
would get built.

Jan


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