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2019-Jan-24 07:36 UTC

[llvm-dev] 答复: 答复: How to add new arch for llvm-cov show?

Hi vedant,


1.       The definition is from llvm/Supprot/ELF.h. But this machine
information(e_machine) is given to compiler at lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp. I
greped the whole llvm project and found that e_machine was assigned at only two
files. One was lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp(there was an comment said
“e_machine=target”) and the other was tools/obj2yaml/elf2yaml.cpp(GDB stopped
only at the former one when using x86_64 llvm-cov so I thought it was MC provide
this e_machine information to compiler).

2.       New error was “Failed to load coverage: No coverage data found” since
the compiler cannot get NamesSection(at loadBinaryFormat in
CoverageMappingReader.cpp). I thought it was my ldscript problem because I put
__llvm_prf_names, __llvm_prf_cnts, __llvm_prf_data and __llvm_prf_vnds inside
.rodata section. Compiler checked .rodata but not things inside .rodata. What’s
the right position to put these 4 __llvm_prf_* sections?

Best,
Ruobin.

发件人: vsk at apple.com [mailto:vsk at apple.com] 代表 Vedant Kumar
发送时间: 2019年1月24日 0:12
收件人: xuruobin <xuruobin at huawei.com>
抄送: vsk at apple.com; llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org; Yuchao (Michael)
<michael.yuchao at huawei.com>
主题: Re: 答复: [llvm-dev] How to add new arch for llvm-cov show?


On Jan 23, 2019, at 1:24 AM, xuruobin <xuruobin at
huawei.com<mailto:xuruobin at huawei.com>> wrote:
Hi vedant,

 The program didn't pass the checking "OF->getArch() !=
Triple(Arch).getArch()" loadBinaryFormat in CoverageMappingReader.cpp and
returned an error. It's because "OF->getArch()" returned null
and "Triple(Arch).getArch()" returned XXXX(name of my arch).
 The returned value of  " OF->getArch()" is decided by "
EF.getHeader()->e_machine" but I found "e_machine" is defined
somewhere in MCAssembler

I haven’t double-checked, but I thought this definition came from
llvm/Support/ELF.h?



(My compiler uses binutils as assembler) . Although I make some hacks to pass
this checking, I still get other errors. So my problem is whether llvm-cov has
to work with MCAssembler and is it possible to do it with binutils?

Coverage support should be / is largely compatible with binutils, but you may
have to watch out for this BFD bug:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.html#drawbacks-and-limitations

What is the error you see?

vedant



Best,
Ruobin


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主题: Re: [llvm-dev] How to add new arch for llvm-cov show?

Hi Ruobin,

On Jan 21, 2019, at 5:21 PM, xuruobin via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>>
wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to support llvm-cov for a new architecture and I have
successfully
built compiler-rt for my arch. Following steps shown in
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.html , I encountered
an error for the last step(step of llvm-cov show).
The command line was (supposed my arch is XXXX)

"llvm-cov show -arch=XXXX ./foo -instr-profile=foo.profdata"

and the error was

"Failed to load coverage: No object file for requested architecture."

I think I should add my arch information to somewhere(maybe an llvm-cov
support list?) but I don't know where to add these information. Can
someone give me some suggestions?

You’ll need to teach libObject about this architecture. Specifically, the
coverage reader checks that calling getArch() on a loaded ObjectFile matches
Triple(Arch).getArch() (see loadBinaryFormat in
CoverageMappingReader.cpp).

best,
vedant



Best Regards,
Ruobin.
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Vedant Kumar via llvm-dev

2019-Jan-24 19:13 UTC

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> On Jan 23, 2019, at 11:36 PM, xuruobin <xuruobin at huawei.com>
wrote:
> 
> Hi vedant,
>  
> 1.       The definition is from llvm/Supprot/ELF.h. But this machine
information(e_machine) is given to compiler at lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp. I
greped the whole llvm project and found that e_machine was assigned at only two
files. One was lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp(there was an comment said
“e_machine=target”) and the other was tools/obj2yaml/elf2yaml.cpp(GDB stopped
only at the former one when using x86_64 llvm-cov so I thought it was MC provide
this e_machine information to compiler).
First, I think this reinforces my theory that llvm’s object file reading
libraries do not “understand” the architecture you’re working on.

Second — and I’m not super familiar with this part of the codebase, so apologies
for any mistakes here — you might have missed the ELF file reader?

$ git grep -iE "\<e_?machine\>” lib
…
lib/Object/ELF.cpp:  return getDynamicTagAsString(getHeader()->e_machine,
Type);


> 2.       New error was “Failed to load coverage: No coverage data found”
since the compiler cannot get NamesSection(at loadBinaryFormat in
CoverageMappingReader.cpp). I thought it was my ldscript problem because I put
__llvm_prf_names, __llvm_prf_cnts, __llvm_prf_data and __llvm_prf_vnds inside
.rodata section. Compiler checked .rodata but not things inside .rodata. What’s
the right position to put these 4 __llvm_prf_* sections?
I’m not sure what changed, exactly, between the point you encountered the last
error and this one. Could you elaborate?

This is just a shot in the dark, but you may need to teach
getInstrProfSectionName about any custom linker directives needed for your
architecture.

vedant

>  
> Best,
> Ruobin.
>  
> 发件人: vsk at apple.com [mailto:vsk at apple.com] 代表 Vedant Kumar
> 发送时间: 2019年1月24日 0:12
> 收件人: xuruobin <xuruobin at huawei.com>
> 抄送: vsk at apple.com; llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org; Yuchao (Michael)
<michael.yuchao at huawei.com>
> 主题: Re: 答复: [llvm-dev] How to add new arch for llvm-cov show?
>  
>  
> On Jan 23, 2019, at 1:24 AM, xuruobin <xuruobin at huawei.com
<mailto:xuruobin at huawei.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hi vedant,
> 
>  The program didn't pass the checking "OF->getArch() !=
Triple(Arch).getArch()" loadBinaryFormat in CoverageMappingReader.cpp and
returned an error. It's because "OF->getArch()" returned null
and "Triple(Arch).getArch()" returned XXXX(name of my arch).
>  The returned value of  " OF->getArch()" is decided by "
EF.getHeader()->e_machine" but I found "e_machine" is defined
somewhere in MCAssembler
>  
> I haven’t double-checked, but I thought this definition came from
llvm/Support/ELF.h?
>  
> 
> 
> (My compiler uses binutils as assembler) . Although I make some hacks to
pass this checking, I still get other errors. So my problem is whether llvm-cov
has to work with MCAssembler and is it possible to do it with binutils?
>  
> Coverage support should be / is largely compatible with binutils, but you
may have to watch out for this BFD bug:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.html#drawbacks-and-limitations
<https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.html#drawbacks-and-limitations>
>  
> What is the error you see?
>  
> vedant 
> 
> 
> 
> Best,
> Ruobin
> 
> 
> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: vsk at apple.com <mailto:vsk at apple.com> [mailto:vsk at
apple.com <mailto:vsk at apple.com>]
> 发送时间: 2019年1月23日 1:24
> 收件人: xuruobin <xuruobin at huawei.com <mailto:xuruobin at
huawei.com>>
> 抄送: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>;
Yuchao (Michael)
> <michael.yuchao at huawei.com <mailto:michael.yuchao at
huawei.com>>
> 主题: Re: [llvm-dev] How to add new arch for llvm-cov show?
>  
> Hi Ruobin,
>  
> On Jan 21, 2019, at 5:21 PM, xuruobin via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>>
> wrote:
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> I'm trying to support llvm-cov for a new architecture and I have
successfully
> built compiler-rt for my arch. Following steps shown in
> https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.html
<https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.html> , I encountered
> an error for the last step(step of llvm-cov show).
> The command line was (supposed my arch is XXXX)
>  
> "llvm-cov show -arch=XXXX ./foo -instr-profile=foo.profdata"
>  
> and the error was
>  
> "Failed to load coverage: No object file for requested
architecture."
>  
> I think I should add my arch information to somewhere(maybe an llvm-cov
> support list?) but I don't know where to add these information. Can
> someone give me some suggestions?
>  
> You’ll need to teach libObject about this architecture. Specifically, the
> coverage reader checks that calling getArch() on a loaded ObjectFile
matches
> Triple(Arch).getArch() (see loadBinaryFormat in
> CoverageMappingReader.cpp).
>  
> best,
> vedant
>  
>  
>  
> Best Regards,
> Ruobin.
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xuruobin via llvm-dev

2019-Jan-25 02:15 UTC

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Hi vedant,


1.      First, I think your theory is right that llvm’s object file reading
libraries do not “understand” the architecture I’m working on. Since I’m using
binutils as assembler which means llvm can only provide asm and object file is
provided by biutils. I think these ELF header information is provided by my
binutils now, so maybe I have to modify binutils code to provide ELF header to
llvm?

Second, I’m sorry to say that I’m now working on llvm-4.0.0 and in ELF.cpp there
is no “return getDynamicTagAsString(getHeader()->e_machine, Type);”. But I
think it makes sense ELF file reader get nothing because my compiler doesn’t
write these information. It seems I have to find somewhere(maybe an ELF file
writer) to write e_machine  so my reader will read this. But I have no idea
where to write it now.



2.      In CoverageMapping.cpp, there is a checking “OF->getArch() !=
Triple(Arch).getArch()” and it makes an error if not equal. “OF->getArch”
will go into a switch/case and the code enters the default branch which returns
an UnknownArch. I hacked the code to make default branch return
Triple::XXXX(only a temporary solution for the first point).

Where should I place __llvm_prf_*  sections? Is it ok to put them into .rodata
section?

Best,
Ruobin

发件人: vsk at apple.com [mailto:vsk at apple.com] 代表 Vedant Kumar
发送时间: 2019年1月25日 3:14
收件人: xuruobin <xuruobin at huawei.com>
抄送: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org; Yuchao (Michael) <michael.yuchao at
huawei.com>
主题: Re: [llvm-dev] How to add new arch for llvm-cov show?




On Jan 23, 2019, at 11:36 PM, xuruobin <xuruobin at
huawei.com<mailto:xuruobin at huawei.com>> wrote:

Hi vedant,

1.       The definition is from llvm/Supprot/ELF.h. But this machine
information(e_machine) is given to compiler at lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp. I
greped the whole llvm project and found that e_machine was assigned at only two
files. One was lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp(there was an comment said
“e_machine=target”) and the other was tools/obj2yaml/elf2yaml.cpp(GDB stopped
only at the former one when using x86_64 llvm-cov so I thought it was MC provide
this e_machine information to compiler).

First, I think this reinforces my theory that llvm’s object file reading
libraries do not “understand” the architecture you’re working on.

Second — and I’m not super familiar with this part of the codebase, so apologies
for any mistakes here — you might have missed the ELF file reader?

$ git grep -iE "\<e_?machine\>” lib
…
lib/Object/ELF.cpp:  return getDynamicTagAsString(getHeader()->e_machine,
Type);




2.       New error was “Failed to load coverage: No coverage data found” since
the compiler cannot get NamesSection(at loadBinaryFormat in
CoverageMappingReader.cpp). I thought it was my ldscript problem because I put
__llvm_prf_names, __llvm_prf_cnts, __llvm_prf_data and __llvm_prf_vnds inside
.rodata section. Compiler checked .rodata but not things inside .rodata. What’s
the right position to put these 4 __llvm_prf_* sections?

I’m not sure what changed, exactly, between the point you encountered the last
error and this one. Could you elaborate?

This is just a shot in the dark, but you may need to teach
getInstrProfSectionName about any custom linker directives needed for your
architecture.

vedant




Best,
Ruobin.

发件人: vsk at apple.com<mailto:vsk at apple.com> [mailto:vsk at apple.com]
代表 Vedant Kumar
发送时间: 2019年1月24日 0:12
收件人: xuruobin <xuruobin at huawei.com<mailto:xuruobin at
huawei.com>>
抄送: vsk at apple.com<mailto:vsk at apple.com>; llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>; Yuchao (Michael)
<michael.yuchao at huawei.com<mailto:michael.yuchao at huawei.com>>
主题: Re: 答复: [llvm-dev] How to add new arch for llvm-cov show?


On Jan 23, 2019, at 1:24 AM, xuruobin <xuruobin at
huawei.com<mailto:xuruobin at huawei.com>> wrote:
Hi vedant,

 The program didn't pass the checking "OF->getArch() !=
Triple(Arch).getArch()" loadBinaryFormat in CoverageMappingReader.cpp and
returned an error. It's because "OF->getArch()" returned null
and "Triple(Arch).getArch()" returned XXXX(name of my arch).
 The returned value of  " OF->getArch()" is decided by "
EF.getHeader()->e_machine" but I found "e_machine" is defined
somewhere in MCAssembler

I haven’t double-checked, but I thought this definition came from
llvm/Support/ELF.h?




(My compiler uses binutils as assembler) . Although I make some hacks to pass
this checking, I still get other errors. So my problem is whether llvm-cov has
to work with MCAssembler and is it possible to do it with binutils?

Coverage support should be / is largely compatible with binutils, but you may
have to watch out for this BFD bug:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.html#drawbacks-and-limitations

What is the error you see?

vedant




Best,
Ruobin



-----邮件原件-----
发件人: vsk at apple.com<mailto:vsk at apple.com> [mailto:vsk at apple.com]
发送时间: 2019年1月23日 1:24
收件人: xuruobin <xuruobin at huawei.com<mailto:xuruobin at
huawei.com>>
抄送: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>; Yuchao
(Michael)
<michael.yuchao at huawei.com<mailto:michael.yuchao at huawei.com>>
主题: Re: [llvm-dev] How to add new arch for llvm-cov show?

Hi Ruobin,

On Jan 21, 2019, at 5:21 PM, xuruobin via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>>
wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to support llvm-cov for a new architecture and I have
successfully
built compiler-rt for my arch. Following steps shown in
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.html , I encountered
an error for the last step(step of llvm-cov show).
The command line was (supposed my arch is XXXX)

"llvm-cov show -arch=XXXX ./foo -instr-profile=foo.profdata"

and the error was

"Failed to load coverage: No object file for requested architecture."

I think I should add my arch information to somewhere(maybe an llvm-cov
support list?) but I don't know where to add these information. Can
someone give me some suggestions?

You’ll need to teach libObject about this architecture. Specifically, the
coverage reader checks that calling getArch() on a loaded ObjectFile matches
Triple(Arch).getArch() (see loadBinaryFormat in
CoverageMappingReader.cpp).

best,
vedant



Best Regards,
Ruobin.
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