Description
When coverage instrumentation and MIR opts are both enabled, coverage relies on two assumptions:
-
MIR opts that would delete
StatementKind::Coverage
statements instead move them into bb0 and change them toCoverageKind::Unreachable
. -
MIR opts won't delete all
CoverageKind::Counter statements
from an instrumented function.
The first assumption will be lifted by #116046, which stores coverage mappings in a separate per-function struct, so the original mappings will be available during codegen even if MIR opts delete arbitrary coverage statements.
The second assumption is trickier. If a function is instrumented for coverage, but MIR opts remove all of its counter-increment statements (e.g. because bb0's ends with TerminatorKind::Unreachable
), then we will codegen a function with no llvm.instrprof.increment
intrinsics. This causes LLVM to assume that the function wasn't instrumented, so it will disappear from the final coverage mappings and won't participate in coverage reports.
Coverage has special code for handling functions that are deemed “unused” at the MIR level, but if a function is used (e.g. as a function pointer) but its body is unreachable, then that special code isn't applied.
Ideally what we need is some way for coverage codegen to detect that an instrumented function has no remaining counter-increment statements, and take special action to either re-insert at least one counter-increment (so LLVM treats it as instrumented), or treat it as though it were unused (so that it shows up in reports as never-executed).
@rustbot label +A-code-coverage +T-compiler