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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-07 11:39:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-07 11:39:33 -0700
commit81e11336d97e7a4c25a65c302ef2bf9cd9808ed4 (patch)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few MM hotfixes - kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs and ocfs2 - some of MM Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs, ocfs2 and mm (hofixes, pagealloc, slab-generic, slab, slub, kcsan, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, mincore, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, hugetlb and vmscan). * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits) mm: vmscan: consistent update to pgrefill mm/vmscan.c: fix typo khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid() khugepaged: retract_page_tables() remember to test exit khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() protect the pmd lock khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() flush the right range mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible mm: thp: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones mm/page_alloc: fix memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs mm/page_alloc.c: skip setting nodemask when we are in interrupt mm/page_alloc: fallbacks at most has 3 elements mm/page_alloc: silence a KASAN false positive mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary end_bitidx for [set|get]_pfnblock_flags_mask() mm/page_alloc.c: simplify pageblock bitmap access mm/page_alloc.c: extract the common part in pfn_to_bitidx() mm/page_alloc.c: replace the definition of NR_MIGRATETYPE_BITS with PB_migratetype_bits mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant mm/page_alloc: remove nr_free_pagecache_pages() mm: remove vm_total_pages ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
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--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -13,11 +13,8 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation to insert validity checks before every
memory access, and therefore requires a compiler version that supports that.
Generic KASAN is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version
-4.9.2 or later for basic support and version 5.0 or later for detection of
-out-of-bounds accesses for stack and global variables and for inline
-instrumentation mode (see the Usage section). With Clang it requires version
-7.0.0 or later and it doesn't support detection of out-of-bounds accesses for
-global variables yet.
+8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or later, but detection of
+out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is only supported since Clang 11.
Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang and requires version 7.0.0 or later.
@@ -193,6 +190,9 @@ 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~