2020-07-10 16:29:46

by Walter Wu

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Subject: [PATCH v8 4/4] 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]>
Reviewed-and-tested-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]>
---
Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index c652d740735d..fede42e6536b 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ 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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2.18.0