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Date:   Mon, 4 Nov 2019 11:46:58 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     LKMM Maintainers -- Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
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        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN)

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 07:41:30PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 17:47, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 03:27:36PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > This is the patch-series for the Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN).
> > > KCSAN is a sampling watchpoint-based data-race detector. More details
> > > are included in Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst. This patch-series
> > > only enables KCSAN for x86, but we expect adding support for other
> > > architectures is relatively straightforward (we are aware of
> > > experimental ARM64 and POWER support).
> > >
> > > To gather early feedback, we announced KCSAN back in September, and
> > > have integrated the feedback where possible:
> > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANpmjNPJ_bHjfLZCAPV23AXFfiPiyXXqqu72n6TgWzb2Gnu1eA@mail.gmail.com
> > >
> > > We want to point out and acknowledge the work surrounding the LKMM,
> > > including several articles that motivate why data-races are dangerous
> > > [1, 2], justifying a data-race detector such as KCSAN.
> > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/
> > > [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/799218/
> > >
> > > The current list of known upstream fixes for data-races found by KCSAN
> > > can be found here:
> > > https://github.com/google/ktsan/wiki/KCSAN#upstream-fixes-of-data-races-found-by-kcsan
> >
> > Making this more accessible to more people seems like a good thing.
> > So, for the series:
> >
> > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
> 
> Much appreciated. Thanks, Paul!
> 
> Any suggestions which tree this could eventually land in?

I would guess that Dmitry might have some suggestions.

							Thanx, Paul

> Thanks,
> -- Marco
> 
> > > Changelog
> > > ---------
> > > v3:
> > > * Major changes:
> > >  - Add microbenchmark.
> > >  - Add instruction watchpoint skip randomization.
> > >  - Refactor API and core runtime fast-path and slow-path. Compared to
> > >    the previous version, with a default config and benchmarked using the
> > >    added microbenchmark, this version is 3.8x faster.
> > >  - Make __tsan_unaligned __alias of generic accesses.
> > >  - Rename kcsan_{begin,end}_atomic ->
> > >    kcsan_{nestable,flat}_atomic_{begin,end}
> > >  - For filter list in debugfs.c use kmalloc+krealloc instead of
> > >    kvmalloc.
> > >  - Split Documentation into separate patch.
> > >
> > > v2: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191017141305.146193-1-elver@google.com
> > > * Major changes:
> > >  - Replace kcsan_check_access(.., {true, false}) with
> > >    kcsan_check_{read,write}.
> > >  - Change atomic-instrumented.h to use __atomic_check_{read,write}.
> > >  - Use common struct kcsan_ctx in task_struct and for per-CPU interrupt
> > >    contexts.
> > >
> > > v1: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016083959.186860-1-elver@google.com
> > >
> > > Marco Elver (9):
> > >   kcsan: Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer infrastructure
> > >   kcsan: Add Documentation entry in dev-tools
> > >   objtool, kcsan: Add KCSAN runtime functions to whitelist
> > >   build, kcsan: Add KCSAN build exceptions
> > >   seqlock, kcsan: Add annotations for KCSAN
> > >   seqlock: Require WRITE_ONCE surrounding raw_seqcount_barrier
> > >   asm-generic, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation for bitops
> > >   locking/atomics, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation
> > >   x86, kcsan: Enable KCSAN for x86
> > >
> > >  Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst         |   1 +
> > >  Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst         | 217 +++++++++
> > >  MAINTAINERS                               |  11 +
> > >  Makefile                                  |   3 +-
> > >  arch/x86/Kconfig                          |   1 +
> > >  arch/x86/boot/Makefile                    |   2 +
> > >  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile         |   2 +
> > >  arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile              |   3 +
> > >  arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h             |   6 +-
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile                  |   7 +
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile              |   3 +
> > >  arch/x86/lib/Makefile                     |   4 +
> > >  arch/x86/mm/Makefile                      |   3 +
> > >  arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile               |   2 +
> > >  arch/x86/realmode/Makefile                |   3 +
> > >  arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile             |   3 +
> > >  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile     |   2 +
> > >  include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h | 393 +++++++--------
> > >  include/asm-generic/bitops-instrumented.h |  18 +
> > >  include/linux/compiler-clang.h            |   9 +
> > >  include/linux/compiler-gcc.h              |   7 +
> > >  include/linux/compiler.h                  |  35 +-
> > >  include/linux/kcsan-checks.h              |  97 ++++
> > >  include/linux/kcsan.h                     | 115 +++++
> > >  include/linux/sched.h                     |   4 +
> > >  include/linux/seqlock.h                   |  51 +-
> > >  init/init_task.c                          |   8 +
> > >  init/main.c                               |   2 +
> > >  kernel/Makefile                           |   6 +
> > >  kernel/kcsan/Makefile                     |  11 +
> > >  kernel/kcsan/atomic.h                     |  27 ++
> > >  kernel/kcsan/core.c                       | 560 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c                    | 275 +++++++++++
> > >  kernel/kcsan/encoding.h                   |  94 ++++
> > >  kernel/kcsan/kcsan.h                      | 131 +++++
> > >  kernel/kcsan/report.c                     | 306 ++++++++++++
> > >  kernel/kcsan/test.c                       | 121 +++++
> > >  kernel/sched/Makefile                     |   6 +
> > >  lib/Kconfig.debug                         |   2 +
> > >  lib/Kconfig.kcsan                         | 119 +++++
> > >  lib/Makefile                              |   3 +
> > >  mm/Makefile                               |   8 +
> > >  scripts/Makefile.kcsan                    |   6 +
> > >  scripts/Makefile.lib                      |  10 +
> > >  scripts/atomic/gen-atomic-instrumented.sh |  17 +-
> > >  tools/objtool/check.c                     |  18 +
> > >  46 files changed, 2526 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst
> > >  create mode 100644 include/linux/kcsan-checks.h
> > >  create mode 100644 include/linux/kcsan.h
> > >  create mode 100644 kernel/kcsan/Makefile
> > >  create mode 100644 kernel/kcsan/atomic.h
> > >  create mode 100644 kernel/kcsan/core.c
> > >  create mode 100644 kernel/kcsan/debugfs.c
> > >  create mode 100644 kernel/kcsan/encoding.h
> > >  create mode 100644 kernel/kcsan/kcsan.h
> > >  create mode 100644 kernel/kcsan/report.c
> > >  create mode 100644 kernel/kcsan/test.c
> > >  create mode 100644 lib/Kconfig.kcsan
> > >  create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.kcsan
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog
> > >
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