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    rcu: Add Kconfig option for strict RCU grace periods · 8cbd0e38
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    People running automated tests have asked for a way to make RCU minimize
    grace-period duration in order to increase the probability of KASAN
    detecting a pointer being improperly leaked from an RCU read-side critical
    section, for example, like this:
    
    	rcu_read_lock();
    	p = rcu_dereference(gp);
    	do_something_with(p); // OK
    	rcu_read_unlock();
    	do_something_else_with(p); // BUG!!!
    
    The rcupdate.rcu_expedited boot parameter is a start in this direction,
    given that it makes calls to synchronize_rcu() instead invoke the faster
    (and more wasteful) synchronize_rcu_expedited().  However, this does
    nothing to shorten RCU grace periods that are instead initiated by
    call_rcu(), and RCU pointer-leak bugs can involve call_rcu() just as
    surely as they can synchronize_rcu().
    
    This commit therefore adds a RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD Kconfig option
    that will be used to shorten normal (non-expedited) RCU grace periods.
    This commit also dumps out a message when this option is in effect.
    Later commits will actually shorten grace periods.
    
    Reported-by Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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