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From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: elver@google.com
Cc: paulmck@kernel.org, dvyukov@google.com, glider@google.com,
	andreyknvl@google.com, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, will@kernel.org,
	clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: [PATCH -tip 07/10] kcsan: Update Documentation to change supported compilers
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 17:03:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200515150338.190344-8-elver@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200515150338.190344-1-elver@google.com>

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst
index f4b5766f12cc..ce4bbd918648 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ approach to detect races. KCSAN's primary purpose is to detect `data races`_.
 Usage
 -----
 
-KCSAN is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version 7.3.0 or
-later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or later.
+KCSAN requires Clang version 11 or later.
 
 To enable KCSAN configure the kernel with::
 
@@ -121,12 +120,6 @@ the below options are available:
     static __no_kcsan_or_inline void foo(void) {
         ...
 
-  Note: Older compiler versions (GCC < 9) also do not always honor the
-  ``__no_kcsan`` attribute on regular ``inline`` functions. If false positives
-  with these compilers cannot be tolerated, for small functions where
-  ``__always_inline`` would be appropriate, ``__no_kcsan_or_inline`` should be
-  preferred instead.
-
 * To disable data race detection for a particular compilation unit, add to the
   ``Makefile``::
 
-- 
2.26.2.761.g0e0b3e54be-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-15 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-15 15:03 [PATCH -tip 00/10] Fix KCSAN for new ONCE (require Clang 11) Marco Elver
2020-05-15 15:03 ` [PATCH -tip 01/10] ubsan, kcsan: don't combine sanitizer with kcov on clang Marco Elver
2020-05-15 15:03 ` [PATCH -tip 02/10] kcsan: Avoid inserting __tsan_func_entry/exit if possible Marco Elver
2020-05-15 15:03 ` [PATCH -tip 03/10] kcsan: Support distinguishing volatile accesses Marco Elver
2020-05-15 15:03 ` [PATCH -tip 04/10] kcsan: Pass option tsan-instrument-read-before-write to Clang Marco Elver
2020-05-15 15:03 ` [PATCH -tip 05/10] kcsan: Remove 'noinline' from __no_kcsan_or_inline Marco Elver
2020-05-15 15:03 ` [PATCH -tip 06/10] kcsan: Restrict supported compilers Marco Elver
2020-05-15 15:03 ` Marco Elver [this message]
2020-05-15 15:03 ` [PATCH -tip 08/10] READ_ONCE, WRITE_ONCE: Remove data_race() wrapping Marco Elver
2020-05-21  9:47   ` Marco Elver
2020-05-21 10:18     ` Marco Elver
2020-05-21 10:22       ` Will Deacon
2020-05-15 15:03 ` [PATCH -tip 09/10] compiler.h: Move function attributes to compiler_types.h Marco Elver
2020-05-15 15:03 ` [PATCH -tip 10/10] compiler_types.h, kasan: Use __SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ instead of CONFIG_KASAN to decide inlining Marco Elver
2020-05-21 11:11 ` [PATCH -tip 00/10] Fix KCSAN for new ONCE (require Clang 11) Marco Elver

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