Re: [LTP] [Ltp-coverage] Regd. Coverage of LTP

[Peter O. <obe...@go...>]

Hi,

Rishikesh K Rajak wrote:
> Subrata Modak <su...@li...> wrote on 01/02/2008 03:15:33 PM:
>> We had some problems with gcov Patches from 2.6.19 onwards. We were able
>> to successfully apply on the 2.6.18 kernel, build and boot it. But with
>> gcov patches for kernel 2.6.19 and onwards, though the Patch was
>> successfully applied to and built, but we were not able to reboot that
>> Kernel. In all instances of 2.6.19-gcov, 2.6.20-gcov, till 2.6.24-gcov,
> 
> 2.6.24-gcov ? may be it would be 2.4.24-gcov :)

Yeah, I mixed up 2.6.23 and 2.6.24. By now we have gcov-kernel patches for 2.6.23 in the CVS repository. Patch version 2.6.23 does not cleanly apply to 2.6.24 rc7 though. Note that a gcov-kernel patch for 2.6.24 will only be made available after 2.6.24 goes live.

>> kernel panicked during booting. I am not sure exactly whether we need to
>> check/un-check certain parameters in the .config file before building
>> the kernel itself.

I tested the gcov-kernel patch for Linux 2.6.23 on both s390 and i386 platform and in both cases, the kernel would compile and boot with the kernel patch applied. What platform/compiler/distribution/memory size are you using?


Regards,
  Peter