Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN)

[Marco Elver <elver@google.com>]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 16:25, Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 15:20, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 12:10:56PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 20:47, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 07:41:30PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 17:47, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 03:27:36PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > > > > > This is the patch-series for the Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN).
> > > > > > > KCSAN is a sampling watchpoint-based data-race detector. More details
> > > > > > > are included in Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst. This patch-series
> > > > > > > only enables KCSAN for x86, but we expect adding support for other
> > > > > > > architectures is relatively straightforward (we are aware of
> > > > > > > experimental ARM64 and POWER support).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > To gather early feedback, we announced KCSAN back in September, and
> > > > > > > have integrated the feedback where possible:
> > > > > > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANpmjNPJ_bHjfLZCAPV23AXFfiPiyXXqqu72n6TgWzb2Gnu1eA@mail.gmail.com
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > We want to point out and acknowledge the work surrounding the LKMM,
> > > > > > > including several articles that motivate why data-races are dangerous
> > > > > > > [1, 2], justifying a data-race detector such as KCSAN.
> > > > > > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/
> > > > > > > [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/799218/
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The current list of known upstream fixes for data-races found by KCSAN
> > > > > > > can be found here:
> > > > > > > https://github.com/google/ktsan/wiki/KCSAN#upstream-fixes-of-data-races-found-by-kcsan
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Making this more accessible to more people seems like a good thing.
> > > > > > So, for the series:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > > > >
> > > > > Much appreciated. Thanks, Paul!
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestions which tree this could eventually land in?
> > > >
> > > > I would guess that Dmitry might have some suggestions.
> > >
> > > I checked and we're both unclear what the most obvious tree to land in
> > > is (the other sanitizers are mm related, which KCSAN is not).
> > >
> > > One suggestion that comes to my mind is for KCSAN to go through the
> > > same tree (rcu?) as the LKMM due to their inherent relationship. Would
> > > that make most sense?
> >
> > It works for me, though you guys have to continue to be the main
> > developers.  ;-)
>
> Great, thanks. We did add an entry to MAINTAINERS, so yes of course. :-)
>
> > I will go through the patches more carefully, and please look into the
> > kbuild test robot complaint.
>
> I just responded to that, it seems to be a sparse problem.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Marco

v4 was sent out:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191114180303.66955-1-elver@google.com

Thanks,
-- Marco