Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into locking/kcsan

Pull the KCSAN subsystem from Paul E. McKenney:

   "This pull request contains base kernel concurrency sanitizer
    (KCSAN) enablement for x86, courtesy of Marco Elver.  KCSAN is a
    sampling watchpoint-based data-race detector, and is documented in
    Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst.  KCSAN was announced in September,
    and much feedback has since been incorporated:

      http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANpmjNPJ_bHjfLZCAPV23AXFfiPiyXXqqu72n6TgWzb2Gnu1eA@mail.gmail.com

    The data races located thus far have resulted in a number of fixes:

      https://github.com/google/ktsan/wiki/KCSAN#upstream-fixes-of-data-races-found-by-kcsan

    Additional information may be found here:

      https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191114180303.66955-1-elver@google.com/
   "

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index d996846697ef..56c1964bb3a1 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ KASAN_SANITIZE_slab_common.o := n
 KASAN_SANITIZE_slab.o := n
 KASAN_SANITIZE_slub.o := n
 
+# These produce frequent data race reports: most of them are due to races on
+# the same word but accesses to different bits of that word. Re-enable KCSAN
+# for these when we have more consensus on what to do about them.
+KCSAN_SANITIZE_slab_common.o := n
+KCSAN_SANITIZE_slab.o := n
+KCSAN_SANITIZE_slub.o := n
+KCSAN_SANITIZE_page_alloc.o := n
+
 # These files are disabled because they produce non-interesting and/or
 # flaky coverage that is not a function of syscall inputs. E.g. slab is out of
 # free pages, or a task is migrated between nodes.