Commit 10efe55f authored by Marco Elver's avatar Marco Elver Committed by Linus Torvalds

kfence, Documentation: add KFENCE documentation

Add KFENCE documentation in dev-tools/kfence.rst, and add to index.

[elver@google.com: add missing copyright header to documentation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210118092159.145934-4-elver@google.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201103175841.3495947-8-elver@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
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Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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...@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ whole; patches welcome! ...@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ whole; patches welcome!
ubsan ubsan
kmemleak kmemleak
kcsan kcsan
kfence
gdb-kernel-debugging gdb-kernel-debugging
kgdb kgdb
kselftest kselftest
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to have negligible cost to permit enabling it in production to have negligible cost to permit enabling it in production
environments. environments.
See <file:Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst> for more details.
Note that, KFENCE is not a substitute for explicit testing with tools Note that, KFENCE is not a substitute for explicit testing with tools
such as KASAN. KFENCE can detect a subset of bugs that KASAN can such as KASAN. KFENCE can detect a subset of bugs that KASAN can
detect, albeit at very different performance profiles. If you can detect, albeit at very different performance profiles. If you can
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