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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 11:39:33 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 11:39:33 -0700 |
commit | 81e11336d97e7a4c25a65c302ef2bf9cd9808ed4 (patch) | |
tree | 44e069e0bb26068137a1bda7ca5125c5b068b4ab /Documentation/dev-tools | |
parent | 5631c5e0eb9035d92ceb20fcd9cdb7779a3f5cc7 (diff) | |
parent | 912c05720f00d039103d356a59c37dc7c3995e01 (diff) | |
download | linux-81e11336d97e7a4c25a65c302ef2bf9cd9808ed4.tar.bz2 |
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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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index c652d740735d..38fd5681fade 100644 --- 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |