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author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2020-05-08 14:58:28 +0200 |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2020-05-08 14:58:28 +0200 |
commit | 97a9474aeb789183a1d0712e66a4283860279ac9 (patch) | |
tree | 4cd94285ef4a8e81c8d2e28f7dc9923cb60014e4 /lib | |
parent | 3b02a051d25d9600e9d403ad3043aed7de00160e (diff) | |
parent | 50a19ad4b1ec531eb550183cb5d4ab9f25a56bf8 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'kcsan-for-tip' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into locking/kcsan
Pull KCSAN updates from Paul McKenney.
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-rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.kcsan | 39 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan index f0b791143c6a..689b6b81f272 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan @@ -4,22 +4,36 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN bool menuconfig KCSAN - bool "KCSAN: dynamic race detector" + bool "KCSAN: dynamic data race detector" depends on HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN && DEBUG_KERNEL && !KASAN select STACKTRACE help - The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) is a dynamic race detector, - which relies on compile-time instrumentation, and uses a - watchpoint-based sampling approach to detect races. + The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) is a dynamic + data-race detector that relies on compile-time instrumentation. + KCSAN uses a watchpoint-based sampling approach to detect races. - KCSAN's primary purpose is to detect data races. KCSAN can also be - used to check properties, with the help of provided assertions, of - concurrent code where bugs do not manifest as data races. + While KCSAN's primary purpose is to detect data races, it + also provides assertions to check data access constraints. + These assertions can expose bugs that do not manifest as + data races. See <file:Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst> for more details. if KCSAN +config KCSAN_VERBOSE + bool "Show verbose reports with more information about system state" + depends on PROVE_LOCKING + help + If enabled, reports show more information about the system state that + may help better analyze and debug races. This includes held locks and + IRQ trace events. + + While this option should generally be benign, we call into more + external functions on report generation; if a race report is + generated from any one of them, system stability may suffer due to + deadlocks or recursion. If in doubt, say N. + config KCSAN_DEBUG bool "Debugging of KCSAN internals" @@ -88,6 +102,17 @@ config KCSAN_SKIP_WATCH_RANDOMIZE KCSAN_WATCH_SKIP. If false, the chosen value is always KCSAN_WATCH_SKIP. +config KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER + bool "Interruptible watchers" + help + If enabled, a task that set up a watchpoint may be interrupted while + delayed. This option will allow KCSAN to detect races between + interrupted tasks and other threads of execution on the same CPU. + + Currently disabled by default, because not all safe per-CPU access + primitives and patterns may be accounted for, and therefore could + result in false positives. + config KCSAN_REPORT_ONCE_IN_MS int "Duration in milliseconds, in which any given race is only reported once" default 3000 |