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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst index 936f6aaa75c8..541899353865 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst @@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ configurable via the Kconfig option ``CONFIG_KFENCE_DEFERRABLE``. The KUnit test suite is very likely to fail when using a deferrable timer since it currently causes very unpredictable sample intervals. +By default KFENCE will only sample 1 heap allocation within each sample +interval. *Burst mode* allows to sample successive heap allocations, where the +kernel boot parameter ``kfence.burst`` can be set to a non-zero value which +denotes the *additional* successive allocations within a sample interval; +setting ``kfence.burst=N`` means that ``1 + N`` successive allocations are +attempted through KFENCE for each sample interval. + The KFENCE memory pool is of fixed size, and if the pool is exhausted, no further KFENCE allocations occur. With ``CONFIG_KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS`` (default 255), the number of available guarded objects can be controlled. Each object |