linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] kcsan: Skew delay to be longer for certain access types

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Date:   Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:34:32 +0200
From:   peterz@...radead.org
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     paulmck@...nel.org, will@...nel.org, arnd@...db.de,
        mark.rutland@....com, dvyukov@...gle.com, glider@...gle.com,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] kcsan: Skew delay to be longer for certain access
 types

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:26:54PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:

> I'll rewrite the commit message:
> 
> 	For compound instrumentation and assert accesses, skew the
> 	watchpoint delay to be longer if randomized. This is useful to
> 	improve race detection for such accesses.
> 
> 	For compound accesses we should increase the delay as we've
> 	aggregated both read and write instrumentation. By giving up 1
> 	call into the runtime, we're less likely to set up a watchpoint
> 	and thus less likely to detect a race. We can balance this by
> 	increasing the watchpoint delay.

Aah, makes sense now. Thanks!