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Marco Elver authored
The KCSAN_ACCESS_ASSERT access type may be used to introduce dummy reads and writes to assert certain properties of concurrent code, where bugs could not be detected as normal data races. For example, a variable that is only meant to be written by a single CPU, but may be read (without locking) by other CPUs must still be marked properly to avoid data races. However, concurrent writes, regardless if WRITE_ONCE() or not, would be a bug. Using kcsan_check_access(&x, sizeof(x), KCSAN_ACCESS_ASSERT) would allow catching such bugs. To support KCSAN_ACCESS_ASSERT the following notable changes were made: * If an access is of type KCSAN_ASSERT_ACCESS, disable various filters that only apply to data races, so that all races that KCSAN observes are reported. * Bug reports that involve an ASSERT access type will be reported as "KCSAN: assert: race in ..." instead of "data-race"; this will help more easily distinguish them. * Update a few comments to just mention 'races' where we do not always mean pure data races. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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