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| author | Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@outlook.com> | 2024-02-15 19:17:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2024-02-21 13:44:21 -0700 |
| commit | eefe68280c94adc352c583d3312d8cbc3b6e9ccd (patch) | |
| tree | ef29533774d4611c7d86d8d9fb2b12b1be831e4b | |
| parent | d4f42b71e816b19dd44b373e1006ca64da75c192 (diff) | |
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kasan: Add documentation for CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO
This patch adds CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO introduction information to
KASAN documentation.
Signed-off-by: Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/AM6PR03MB5848C52B871DA67455F0B2F2994D2@AM6PR03MB5848.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
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 ---------------------- |