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Re: [PATCH v2] XEN: enable MC/DC coverage for Clang


  • To: Saman Dehghan <samaan.dehghan@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:11:23 +0100
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  • Delivery-date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:11:30 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 24.11.2025 12:04, Saman Dehghan wrote:
> Clang >= 18 supports Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC).
> This patch enables the detection and usage of this feature when
> compiling Xen with Clang.
> 
> - Update detection logic in Kconfig to check for the required set of
>   Clang flags for MC/DC:
>   '-fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping -fcoverage-mcdc'.
>   This bundle is necessary because '-fcoverage-mcdc' requires
>   '-fcoverage-mapping', which in turn requires '-fprofile-instr-generate'.
> - Update llvm.c to handle the profile format changes (bitmap section)
>   required for MC/DC.
> - Guard -Wno-error=coverage-too-many-conditions with CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
>   to avoid passing a GCC-only warning option to Clang
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saman Dehghan <samaan.dehghan@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
ideally with ...

> --- a/xen/Rules.mk
> +++ b/xen/Rules.mk
> @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ non-init-objects = $(filter-out %.init.o, $(obj-y) 
> $(obj-bin-y) $(extra-y))
>  
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG),y)
>      cov-cflags-$(CONFIG_COVERAGE) := -fprofile-instr-generate 
> -fcoverage-mapping
> +    cov-cflags-$(CONFIG_CONDITION_COVERAGE) +=  -fcoverage-mcdc

... the excess (double) blank here dropped (can likely be done while committing,
if no other need for a v3 arises).

Jan



 


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