[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] gcov: update documentation on coverage.

[Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@xxxxxxxxxx>

Fix some spelling.
Add documentation for new xencov_split utility.

Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 docs/misc/coverage.markdown |   67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/misc/coverage.markdown b/docs/misc/coverage.markdown
index 74af665..b701d7f 100644
--- a/docs/misc/coverage.markdown
+++ b/docs/misc/coverage.markdown
@@ -3,21 +3,22 @@
 Coverare support allow you to get coverage information from Xen execution.
 You can see how many times a line is executed.
 
-The compiler have specific options that enable the collection of these
-information. Every basic block in the code will be instructed by the compiler
-to compute these statistics. It should not be used in production as it slow
+Some compilers have specific options that enable the collection of this
+information. Every basic block in the code will be instrumented by the compiler
+to compute these statistics. It should not be used in production as it slows
 down your hypervisor.
 
 ## Enable coverage
 
-Test coverage support can be turned on compiling Xen with coverage option set
-to y.
+Test coverage support can be turned on compiling Xen with the `coverage` 
option set
+to `y`.
 
 Something like:
+
     cd xen
     make coverage=y
 
-(or change your `Config.mk` file).
+(or change your `.config` file).
 
 ## Extract coverage data
 
@@ -28,12 +29,62 @@ so the way you can use coverage from Xen is extract 
coverage data from Xen and
 then split these information into files.
 
 To extract data you use a simple utility called `xencov`. Mainly `xencore`
-allow you to do 3 operations:
+allows you to do 3 operations:
 
 * `xencov read` extract data
 * `xencov reset` reset all coverage counters
 * `xencov read-reset` extract data and reset counters at the same time.
 
-Another utility (**TODO**) is used to split extracted data file into files
+Another utility (`xencov_split`) is used to split extracted data file into 
files
 needed by userspace tools.
 
+## Split coverage data
+
+Once you extracted data from Xen, it is time to create files which the 
coverage tools
+can understand. To do it you need to run `xencov_split` utility.
+
+The utility just takes an input file and splits the blob into gcc .gcda files
+in the same directory that you execute the script. As file names are generated
+relative to the current directory, it could be a good idea to run the script
+from `/` on your build machine.
+
+Code for splitting the blob is put in another utility for some reason:
+* It is simpler to maintain a high level script than a C program;
+* You don't need to execute on the Xen host so you just need to copy the file 
to
+  your development box (you usually need development files anyway).
+
+## Possible use
+
+**This section is just an example on how to use these tools!**
+
+This example assumes you compiled Xen from `~/xen-unstable` and installed into
+the host. **Consider that if you even recompile Xen you are not able to use
+blob extracted from xencov!**
+
+* Ensure the `lcov` package is installed
+* From the Xen host machine extract the coverage blob
+
+        cd /root
+        xencov read coverage.dat
+
+* Copy the extracted blob to your dev machine
+
+        cd ~
+        scp root@myhost:coverage.dat
+
+* Extract the coverage information
+
+        (cd / && xencov_split ~/coverage.dat)
+
+* Produce coverage html output
+
+        cd ~/xen-unstable
+        rm -rf cov.info cov
+        geninfo -o cov.info xen
+        mkdir cov
+        genhtml -o cov cov.info
+
+* See output in a browser
+
+        firefox cov/index.html
+
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