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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.kcsan | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan index 66126853dab0..020ac63e4361 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan @@ -132,8 +132,18 @@ config KCSAN_ASSUME_PLAIN_WRITES_ATOMIC config KCSAN_IGNORE_ATOMICS bool "Do not instrument marked atomic accesses" help - If enabled, never instruments marked atomic accesses. This results in - not reporting data races where one access is atomic and the other is - a plain access. + Never instrument marked atomic accesses. This option can be used for + additional filtering. Conflicting marked atomic reads and plain + writes will never be reported as a data race, however, will cause + plain reads and marked writes to result in "unknown origin" reports. + If combined with CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_RACE_UNKNOWN_ORIGIN=n, data + races where at least one access is marked atomic will never be + reported. + + Similar to KCSAN_ASSUME_PLAIN_WRITES_ATOMIC, but including unaligned + accesses, conflicting marked atomic reads and plain writes will not + be reported as data races; however, unlike that option, data races + due to two conflicting plain writes will be reported (aligned and + unaligned, if CONFIG_KCSAN_ASSUME_PLAIN_WRITES_ATOMIC=n). endif # KCSAN |