Commit 739337d4 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Boqun Feng

doc: Add CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to checklist.rst

This commit adds CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to the list of debugging
Kconfig options in checklist.rst.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
parent 3cf50161
...@@ -491,6 +491,12 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! ...@@ -491,6 +491,12 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
since the last time that you passed that same object to since the last time that you passed that same object to
call_rcu() (or friends). call_rcu() (or friends).
CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD:
combine with KASAN to check for pointers leaked out
of RCU read-side critical sections. This Kconfig
option is tough on both performance and scalability,
and so is limited to four-CPU systems.
__rcu sparse checks: __rcu sparse checks:
tag the pointer to the RCU-protected data structure tag the pointer to the RCU-protected data structure
with __rcu, and sparse will warn you if you access that with __rcu, and sparse will warn you if you access that
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