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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com,
	kernel-team@fb.com, mingo@kernel.org
Cc: elver@google.com, andreyknvl@google.com, glider@google.com,
	dvyukov@google.com, cai@lca.pw, boqun.feng@gmail.com,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH kcsan 1/8] kcsan: Improve some Kconfig comments
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:08:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210721210812.844740-1-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210721210726.GA828672@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>

From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

Improve comment for CC_HAS_TSAN_COMPOUND_READ_BEFORE_WRITE. Also shorten
the comment above the "strictness" configuration options.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 lib/Kconfig.kcsan | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan
index 0440f373248eb..6152fbd5cbb43 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan
@@ -40,10 +40,14 @@ menuconfig KCSAN
 
 if KCSAN
 
-# Compiler capabilities that should not fail the test if they are unavailable.
 config CC_HAS_TSAN_COMPOUND_READ_BEFORE_WRITE
 	def_bool (CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-fsanitize=thread -mllvm -tsan-compound-read-before-write=1)) || \
 		 (CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-fsanitize=thread --param tsan-compound-read-before-write=1))
+	help
+	  The compiler instruments plain compound read-write operations
+	  differently (++, --, +=, -=, |=, &=, etc.), which allows KCSAN to
+	  distinguish them from other plain accesses. This is currently
+	  supported by Clang 12 or later.
 
 config KCSAN_VERBOSE
 	bool "Show verbose reports with more information about system state"
@@ -169,13 +173,9 @@ config KCSAN_REPORT_ONCE_IN_MS
 	  reporting to avoid flooding the console with reports.  Setting this
 	  to 0 disables rate limiting.
 
-# The main purpose of the below options is to control reported data races (e.g.
-# in fuzzer configs), and are not expected to be switched frequently by other
-# users. We could turn some of them into boot parameters, but given they should
-# not be switched normally, let's keep them here to simplify configuration.
-#
-# The defaults below are chosen to be very conservative, and may miss certain
-# bugs.
+# The main purpose of the below options is to control reported data races, and
+# are not expected to be switched frequently by non-testers or at runtime.
+# The defaults are chosen to be conservative, and can miss certain bugs.
 
 config KCSAN_REPORT_RACE_UNKNOWN_ORIGIN
 	bool "Report races of unknown origin"
-- 
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-21 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-21 21:07 [PATCH kcsan 0/8] KCSAN updates for v5.15 Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:08 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2021-07-21 21:08 ` [PATCH kcsan 2/8] kcsan: Remove CONFIG_KCSAN_DEBUG Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:08 ` [PATCH kcsan 3/8] kcsan: Introduce CONFIG_KCSAN_STRICT Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:08 ` [PATCH kcsan 4/8] kcsan: Reduce get_ctx() uses in kcsan_found_watchpoint() Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:08 ` [PATCH kcsan 5/8] kcsan: Rework atomic.h into permissive.h Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:08 ` [PATCH kcsan 6/8] kcsan: Print if strict or non-strict during init Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:08 ` [PATCH kcsan 7/8] kcsan: permissive: Ignore data-racy 1-bit value changes Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:08 ` [PATCH kcsan 8/8] kcsan: Make strict mode imply interruptible watchers Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:10 ` [PATCH memory-model 1/4] tools/memory-model: Make read_foo_diagnostic() more clearly diagnostic Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:10 ` [PATCH memory-model 2/4] tools/memory-model: Add example for heuristic lockless reads Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-23  2:08   ` Alan Stern
2021-07-23  6:52     ` Manfred Spraul
2021-07-23 13:05       ` Alan Stern
2021-07-23 13:57         ` Manfred Spraul
2021-07-23 16:30         ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-23 17:08           ` Alan Stern
2021-07-23 20:32             ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-23 21:03               ` Alan Stern
2021-07-23 22:29                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-23 16:24     ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-23 16:59       ` Alan Stern
2021-07-23 17:30         ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-23 18:11           ` Alan Stern
2021-07-23 20:28             ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 17:40   ` [PATCH v2 " Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:10 ` [PATCH memory-model 3/4] tools/memory-model: Heuristics using data_race() must handle all values Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 21:10 ` [PATCH memory-model 4/4] tools/memory-model: Document data_race(READ_ONCE()) Paul E. McKenney

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