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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst index 6a600cf8430b..7db43c7c09b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst @@ -127,6 +127,18 @@ Kconfig options: causes KCSAN to not report data races due to conflicts where the only plain accesses are aligned writes up to word size. +* ``CONFIG_KCSAN_PERMISSIVE``: Enable additional permissive rules to ignore + certain classes of common data races. Unlike the above, the rules are more + complex involving value-change patterns, access type, and address. This + option depends on ``CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_VALUE_CHANGE_ONLY=y``. For details + please see the ``kernel/kcsan/permissive.h``. Testers and maintainers that + only focus on reports from specific subsystems and not the whole kernel are + recommended to disable this option. + +To use the strictest possible rules, select ``CONFIG_KCSAN_STRICT=y``, which +configures KCSAN to follow the Linux-kernel memory consistency model (LKMM) as +closely as possible. + DebugFS interface ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |