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Date:      Thu, 8 Aug 2019 19:02:06 +0300
From:      Slava Shwartsman <slavash@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Tuexen <tuexen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kernel module code coverage
Message-ID:  <aa9bd1a8-63d7-aa20-046c-9ef162acb5f0@FreeBSD.org>
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On 08-Aug-19 18:14, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> On 8. Aug 2019, at 16:16, Slava Shwartsman <slavash@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08-Aug-19 16:52, Alan Somers wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:42 AM Michael Tuexen <tuexen@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 8. Aug 2019, at 14:24, Slava Shwartsman <slavash@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Apparently, Bullseye are dropping support for FreeBSD.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are looking for an alternative for kernel module run time analysis.
>>>>> Mostly interested in code coverage (for now).
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions that work for you?
>>>> Have you looked into /dev/kcov. This is used by SYZKALLER for getting
>>>> coverage information from the kernel.
>>>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Is there a man page for /dev/kcov?
> I don't think so. There was no man page in the commit which introduced the feature:
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342962
> 
> You might want to look at:
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/tools/kcovtrace/kcovtrace.c
> how to use it.
> 
> Best regards
> Michael
>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Slava
>>> That's part of Matt Macy's gcov project, right?.  However, while it
>>> works for the kernel itself, it doesn't work for modules.
>>
>> In worst case, I can build my module into the kernel, right?
>>
>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239194
>>> -Alan
>>
>>
>> Slava
> 


Thanks Michael and Alan.


Slava



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