Re: [PATCH 8/8] x86, kcsan: Enable KCSAN for x86

From: Marco Elver
Date: Wed Oct 16 2019 - 13:04:19 EST


On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 18:14, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 10/16/19 1:39 AM, Marco Elver wrote:
> > This patch enables KCSAN for x86, with updates to build rules to not use
> > KCSAN for several incompatible compilation units.
>
> First of all KCSAN looks really interesting!
>
> For the x86 code, though, I'd really appreciate some specific notes on
> why individual compilation units are incompatible. There might be some
> that were missed, and we have to figure out what we do for any future
> work. Knowing the logic used on these would be really helpful in the
> future.

Thanks! I will add comments where I can for v2. For most of them, I
followed the examples of KASAN and co, and will try to reevaluate each
one.

-- Marco