From 6d5a10d97a3140902f945e76678bf0230f1c2d18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco Elver Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 16:20:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kcsan: Update Documentation to change supported compilers Document change in required compiler version for KCSAN, and remove the now redundant note about __no_kcsan and inlining problems with older compilers. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Will Deacon Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521142047.169334-8-elver@google.com --- Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst index f4b5766f12cc8..ce4bbd918648e 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst @@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ approach to detect races. KCSAN's primary purpose is to detect `data races`_. Usage ----- -KCSAN is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version 7.3.0 or -later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or later. +KCSAN requires Clang version 11 or later. To enable KCSAN configure the kernel with:: @@ -121,12 +120,6 @@ the below options are available: static __no_kcsan_or_inline void foo(void) { ... - Note: Older compiler versions (GCC < 9) also do not always honor the - ``__no_kcsan`` attribute on regular ``inline`` functions. If false positives - with these compilers cannot be tolerated, for small functions where - ``__always_inline`` would be appropriate, ``__no_kcsan_or_inline`` should be - preferred instead. - * To disable data race detection for a particular compilation unit, add to the ``Makefile``:: -- 2.39.5