[PATCH v6] kernel: add kcov code coverage

Kirill A. Shutemov kirill at shutemov.name
Mon Jan 25 07:38:07 PST 2016


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 02:03:55PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com> wrote:
> > kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
> > (randomized testing). Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
> > that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
> > system. A notable user-space example is AFL
> > (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). However, this technique is not
> > widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
> > support.
> 
> Kirill, I export kcov file as 0600 now.
> 
> Any more comments?

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill at shutemov.name>

I have some doubts if debugfs knob is the right way to go. Maybe it would
be better to integrate the feature with perf somehow as it has tracing
capabilities.

But that's just a side note. I don't have a strong opinion about the
interface.

+CC perf people.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov



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