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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/10] kcsan: Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer infrastructure
Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:48:22 -0500
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> On Jan 14, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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=E2=80=99t think I have powers to announce that. Once the feature hit t=
he mainline, distro people could start to use in the debug kernel variant, a=
nd it is a shame to only find out it is broken. Anyway, I=E2=80=99ll try to e=
dge out those corner cases. Stay tuned.=