kcsan: Skew delay to be longer for certain access types
For compound instrumentation and assert accesses, skew the watchpoint delay to be longer if randomized. This is useful to improve race detection for such accesses. For compound accesses we should increase the delay as we've aggregated both read and write instrumentation. By giving up 1 call into the runtime, we're less likely to set up a watchpoint and thus less likely to detect a race. We can balance this by increasing the watchpoint delay. For assert accesses, we know these are of increased interest, and we wish to increase our chances of detecting races for such checks. Note that, kcsan_udelay_{task,interrupt} define the upper bound delays. When randomized, delays are uniformly distributed between [0, delay]. Skewing the delay does not break this promise as long as the defined upper bounds are still adhered to. The current skew results in delays uniformly distributed between [delay/2, delay]. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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