Commit 6f3f0c98 authored by Marco Elver's avatar Marco Elver Committed by Paul E. McKenney

sched, kcsan: Enable memory barrier instrumentation

There's no fundamental reason to disable KCSAN for scheduler code,
except for excessive noise and performance concerns (instrumenting
scheduler code is usually a good way to stress test KCSAN itself).

However, several core sched functions imply memory barriers that are
invisible to KCSAN without instrumentation, but are required to avoid
false positives. Therefore, unconditionally enable instrumentation of
memory barriers in scheduler code. Also update the comment to reflect
this and be a bit more brief.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent d37d1fa0
......@@ -11,11 +11,10 @@ ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
# that is not a function of syscall inputs. E.g. involuntary context switches.
KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n
# There are numerous data races here, however, most of them are due to plain accesses.
# This would make it even harder for syzbot to find reproducers, because these
# bugs trigger without specific input. Disable by default, but should re-enable
# eventually.
# Disable KCSAN to avoid excessive noise and performance degradation. To avoid
# false positives ensure barriers implied by sched functions are instrumented.
KCSAN_SANITIZE := n
KCSAN_INSTRUMENT_BARRIERS := y
ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y)
# According to Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>, the -fno-omit-frame-pointer is
......
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