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-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst21
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index c3389c6f3838..127968995847 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ Available options:
- --fix
- This is an EXPERIMENTAL feature. If correctable errors exists, a file
+ This is an EXPERIMENTAL feature. If correctable errors exist, a file
<inputfile>.EXPERIMENTAL-checkpatch-fixes is created which has the
automatically fixable errors corrected.
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Available options:
- --ignore-perl-version
- Override checking of perl version. Runtime errors maybe encountered after
+ Override checking of perl version. Runtime errors may be encountered after
enabling this flag if the perl version does not meet the minimum specified.
- --codespell
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index 858c77fe7dc4..d56f298a9d7c 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
----------------------