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[sancov] Document -fsanitize-coverage=stack-depth
Add documentation to detail the behaviors of the stack-depth tracer, including the new -fsanitize-coverage-stack-depth-callback-min=N argument.
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clang/docs/SanitizerCoverage.rst

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Tracing Stack Depth
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===================
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With ``-fsanitize-coverage=stack-depth`` the compiler will track how much
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stack space has been used for a function call chain. Leaf functions are
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not included in this tracing.
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The maximum depth of a function call graph is stored in the thread-local
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``__sancov_lowest_stack`` variable. Instrumentation is inserted in every
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non-leaf function to check the frame pointer against this variable,
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and if it is lower, store the current frame pointer. This effectively
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inserts the following:
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.. code-block:: c++
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extern thread_local uintptr_t __sancov_lowest_stack;
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uintptr_t stack = (uintptr_t)__builtin_frame_address(0);
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if (stack < __sancov_lowest_stack)
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__sancov_lowest_stack = stack;
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If ``-fsanitize-coverage-stack-depth-callback-min=N`` (where
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``N > 0``) is also used, the tracking is delegated to a callback,
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``__sanitizer_cov_stack_depth``, instead of adding instrumentation to
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update ``__sancov_lowest_stack``. The ``N`` of the argument is used
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to determine which functions to instrument. Only functions estimated
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to be using ``N`` bytes or more of stack space will be instrumented to
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call the tracing callback. In the case of a dynamically sized stack,
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the callback is unconditionally added.
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The callback takes no arguments and is responsible for determining
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the stack usage and doing any needed comparisons and storage. A roughly
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equivalent implementation of ``__sancov_lowest_stack`` using the callback
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would look like this:
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.. code-block:: c++
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void __sanitizer_cov_stack_depth(void) {
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uintptr_t stack = (uintptr_t)__builtin_frame_address(0);
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if (stack < __sancov_lowest_stack)
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__sancov_lowest_stack = stack;
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}
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Gated Trace Callbacks
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