[PATCH v2] kasan: Add documentation for CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO

From: Juntong Deng
Date: Thu Feb 15 2024 - 14:18:09 EST


This patch adds CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO introduction information to
KASAN documentation.

Signed-off-by: Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
V1 -> V2: Fix run-on sentence.

Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index a5a6dbe9029f..d7de44f5339d 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -277,6 +277,27 @@ traces point to places in code that interacted with the object but that are not
directly present in the bad access stack trace. Currently, this includes
call_rcu() and workqueue queuing.

+CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Enabling CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO allows KASAN to record and report more
+information. The extra information currently supported is the CPU number and
+timestamp at allocation and free. More information can help find the cause of
+the bug and correlate the error with other system events, at the cost of using
+extra memory to record more information (more cost details in the help text of
+CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO).
+
+Here is the report with CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO enabled (only the
+different parts are shown)::
+
+ ==================================================================
+ ...
+ Allocated by task 134 on cpu 5 at 229.133855s:
+ ...
+ Freed by task 136 on cpu 3 at 230.199335s:
+ ...
+ ==================================================================
+
Implementation details
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