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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-08-01 10:25:21 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-08-01 10:26:27 +0300
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Merge branch 'kcsan' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into locking/core
Pull v5.9 KCSAN bits from Paul E. McKenney. Perhaps the most important change is that GCC 11 now has all fixes in place to support KCSAN, so GCC support can be enabled again. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ approach to detect races. KCSAN's primary purpose is to detect `data races`_.
Usage
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-KCSAN requires Clang version 11 or later.
+KCSAN is supported by both GCC and Clang. With GCC we require version 11 or
+later, and with Clang also require version 11 or later.
To enable KCSAN configure the kernel with::