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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst index 1c4e1825d769..8548b0b04e43 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst @@ -217,14 +217,15 @@ This allows to collect coverage from two types of kernel background threads: the global ones, that are spawned during kernel boot in a limited number of instances (e.g. one USB hub_event() worker thread is spawned per USB HCD); and the local ones, that are spawned when a user interacts with -some kernel interface (e.g. vhost workers). +some kernel interface (e.g. vhost workers); as well as from soft +interrupts. -To enable collecting coverage from a global background thread, a unique -global handle must be assigned and passed to the corresponding -kcov_remote_start() call. Then a userspace process can pass a list of such -handles to the KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE ioctl in the handles array field of the -kcov_remote_arg struct. This will attach the used kcov device to the code -sections, that are referenced by those handles. +To enable collecting coverage from a global background thread or from a +softirq, a unique global handle must be assigned and passed to the +corresponding kcov_remote_start() call. Then a userspace process can pass +a list of such handles to the KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE ioctl in the handles +array field of the kcov_remote_arg struct. This will attach the used kcov +device to the code sections, that are referenced by those handles. Since there might be many local background threads spawned from different userspace processes, we can't use a single global handle per annotation. @@ -242,7 +243,7 @@ handles as they don't belong to a particular subsystem. The bytes 4-7 are currently reserved and must be zero. In the future the number of bytes used for the subsystem or handle ids might be increased. -When a particular userspace proccess collects coverage by via a common +When a particular userspace proccess collects coverage via a common handle, kcov will collect coverage for each code section that is annotated to use the common handle obtained as kcov_handle from the current task_struct. However non common handles allow to collect coverage |