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authorWalter Wu <[email protected]>2020-08-06 23:24:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2020-08-07 11:33:28 -0700
commit9793b62663f54e369a3986543b296992a8a0589c (patch)
treea33d2202902957fec6fa864bd6843e133dd4759c
parent387d6e46681b0d5b64f5d13639f90e3df15e020d (diff)
kasan: update documentation for generic kasan
Generic KASAN will support to record the last two call_rcu() call stacks and print them in KASAN report. So that need to update documentation. Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Matthias Brugger <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
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@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ function calls GCC directly inserts the code to check the shadow memory.
This option significantly enlarges kernel but it gives x1.1-x2 performance
boost over outline instrumented kernel.
+Generic KASAN prints up to 2 call_rcu() call stacks in reports, the last one
+and the second to last.
+
Software tag-based KASAN
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