linux-kernel - [tip: locking/kcsan] kcsan: Clean up the main KCSAN Kconfig option

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Message-ID: <158504105785.28353.9595072129299439556.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 09:10:57 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Marco Elver" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: locking/kcsan] kcsan: Clean up the main KCSAN Kconfig option

The following commit has been merged into the locking/kcsan branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     8cfbb04fae75260eae07ab8c74c1dcd44294d739
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/8cfbb04fae75260eae07ab8c74c1dcd44294d739
Author:        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
AuthorDate:    Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:21:12 +01:00
Committer:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 09:42:26 +01:00

kcsan: Clean up the main KCSAN Kconfig option

This patch cleans up the rules of the 'KCSAN' Kconfig option by:

  1. implicitly selecting 'STACKTRACE' instead of depending on it;
  2. depending on DEBUG_KERNEL, to avoid accidentally turning KCSAN on if
     the kernel is not meant to be a debug kernel;
  3. updating the short and long summaries.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 lib/Kconfig.kcsan | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan
index 020ac63..9785bbf 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan
@@ -4,12 +4,15 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN
 	bool
 
 menuconfig KCSAN
-	bool "KCSAN: watchpoint-based dynamic data race detector"
-	depends on HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN && !KASAN && STACKTRACE
+	bool "KCSAN: dynamic data race detector"
+	depends on HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN && DEBUG_KERNEL && !KASAN
+	select STACKTRACE
 	help
-	  Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer is a dynamic data race detector, which
-	  uses a watchpoint-based sampling approach to detect races. See
-	  <file:Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst> for more details.
+	  The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) is a dynamic data race
+	  detector, which relies on compile-time instrumentation, and uses a
+	  watchpoint-based sampling approach to detect data races.
+
+	  See <file:Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst> for more details.
 
 if KCSAN