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From:   Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 Jun 2020 21:07:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 1/2] Kconfig: Bump required compiler version of KASAN
 and UBSAN
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
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        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
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On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 20:53, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 8:44 PM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Adds config variable CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE, which will be true if we
> > have a compiler that does not fail builds due to no_sanitize functions.
> > This does not yet mean they work as intended, but for automated
> > build-tests, this is the minimum requirement.
> >
> > For example, we require that __always_inline functions used from
> > no_sanitize functions do not generate instrumentation. On GCC <= 7 this
> > fails to build entirely, therefore we make the minimum version GCC 8.
>
> Could you also update KASAN docs to mention this requirement? As a
> separate patch or in v2, up to you.

I can do a v2 tomorrow. But all this is once again tangled up with
KCSAN, so I was hoping to keep changes minimal. ;-)

Thanks,
-- Marco