From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/10] kcsan: Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer infrastructure
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:09:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200114220906.GZ2935@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9970E373-DF70-4FE4-A839-AAE641612EC5@lca.pw>
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 04:48:22PM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
>
>
> > On Jan 14, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > As an alternative, once the patches needed for your tests to pass
> > reach mainline, you could announce that KCSAN was ready to be enabled
> > in distros.
> >
> > Though I confess that I don't know how that works. Is there a separate
> > testing kernel binary provided by the distros in question?
>
> I don’t think I have powers to announce that. Once the feature hit the mainline, distro people could start to use in the debug kernel variant, and it is a shame to only find out it is broken. Anyway, I’ll try to edge out those corner cases. Stay tuned.
Very good, thank you!
And you do have the power to announce. But just like most of the rest
of use, myself included, you won't always have the power to make people
actually pay attention to what you say. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-14 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-14 18:02 [PATCH v4 00/10] Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:02 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] kcsan: Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer infrastructure Marco Elver
2019-11-19 19:27 ` Qian Cai
2019-11-19 19:54 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-19 21:42 ` Qian Cai
2019-11-19 21:53 ` Marco Elver
2020-01-03 5:13 ` Qian Cai
2020-01-06 12:46 ` Marco Elver
2020-01-14 11:08 ` Qian Cai
2020-01-14 12:51 ` Marco Elver
2020-01-14 19:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-14 20:30 ` Qian Cai
2020-01-14 21:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-14 21:48 ` Qian Cai
2020-01-14 22:09 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2019-11-14 18:02 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] include/linux/compiler.h: Introduce data_race(expr) macro Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:02 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] kcsan: Add Documentation entry in dev-tools Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:02 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] objtool, kcsan: Add KCSAN runtime functions to whitelist Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:02 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] build, kcsan: Add KCSAN build exceptions Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:02 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] seqlock, kcsan: Add annotations for KCSAN Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:03 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] seqlock: Require WRITE_ONCE surrounding raw_seqcount_barrier Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:03 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] asm-generic, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation for bitops Marco Elver
2019-11-15 11:55 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:03 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] locking/atomics, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:03 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] x86, kcsan: Enable KCSAN for x86 Marco Elver
2019-11-14 19:50 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-14 21:33 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-14 22:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-15 12:02 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-15 16:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-15 17:14 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-15 20:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-16 8:20 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-16 15:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-16 18:09 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-16 18:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-19 19:50 ` Qian Cai
2019-11-19 20:12 ` Qian Cai
2019-11-19 21:50 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-20 15:54 ` Marco Elver
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