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authorMarco Elver <elver@google.com>2019-11-14 19:02:54 +0100
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2019-11-16 07:23:13 -0800
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kcsan: Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer infrastructure
Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) is a dynamic data-race detector for kernel space. KCSAN is a sampling watchpoint-based data-race detector. See the included Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst for more details. This patch adds basic infrastructure, but does not yet enable KCSAN for any architecture. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+config HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN
+ bool
+
+menuconfig KCSAN
+ bool "KCSAN: watchpoint-based dynamic data race detector"
+ depends on HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN && !KASAN && STACKTRACE
+ default n
+ help
+ Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer is a dynamic data race detector, which
+ uses a watchpoint-based sampling approach to detect races. See
+ <file:Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst> for more details.
+
+if KCSAN
+
+config KCSAN_DEBUG
+ bool "Debugging of KCSAN internals"
+ default n
+
+config KCSAN_SELFTEST
+ bool "Perform short selftests on boot"
+ default y
+ help
+ Run KCSAN selftests on boot. On test failure, causes kernel to panic.
+
+config KCSAN_EARLY_ENABLE
+ bool "Early enable during boot"
+ default y
+ help
+ If KCSAN should be enabled globally as soon as possible. KCSAN can
+ later be enabled/disabled via debugfs.
+
+config KCSAN_NUM_WATCHPOINTS
+ int "Number of available watchpoints"
+ default 64
+ help
+ Total number of available watchpoints. An address range maps into a
+ specific watchpoint slot as specified in kernel/kcsan/encoding.h.
+ Although larger number of watchpoints may not be usable due to
+ limited number of CPUs, a larger value helps to improve performance
+ due to reducing cache-line contention. The chosen default is a
+ conservative value; we should almost never observe "no_capacity"
+ events (see /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan).
+
+config KCSAN_UDELAY_TASK
+ int "Delay in microseconds (for tasks)"
+ default 80
+ help
+ For tasks, the microsecond delay after setting up a watchpoint.
+
+config KCSAN_UDELAY_INTERRUPT
+ int "Delay in microseconds (for interrupts)"
+ default 20
+ help
+ For interrupts, the microsecond delay after setting up a watchpoint.
+ Interrupts have tighter latency requirements, and their delay should
+ be lower than for tasks.
+
+config KCSAN_DELAY_RANDOMIZE
+ bool "Randomize above delays"
+ default y
+ help
+ If delays should be randomized, where the maximum is KCSAN_UDELAY_*.
+ If false, the chosen delays are always KCSAN_UDELAY_* defined above.
+
+config KCSAN_SKIP_WATCH
+ int "Skip instructions before setting up watchpoint"
+ default 4000
+ help
+ The number of per-CPU memory operations to skip, before another
+ watchpoint is set up, i.e. one in KCSAN_WATCH_SKIP per-CPU
+ memory operations are used to set up a watchpoint. A smaller value
+ results in more aggressive race detection, whereas a larger value
+ improves system performance at the cost of missing some races.
+
+config KCSAN_SKIP_WATCH_RANDOMIZE
+ bool "Randomize watchpoint instruction skip count"
+ default y
+ help
+ If instruction skip count should be randomized, where the maximum is
+ KCSAN_WATCH_SKIP. If false, the chosen value is always
+ KCSAN_WATCH_SKIP.
+
+# Note that, while some of the below options could be turned into boot
+# parameters, to optimize for the common use-case, we avoid this because: (a)
+# it would impact performance (and we want to avoid static branch for all
+# {READ,WRITE}_ONCE, atomic_*, bitops, etc.), and (b) complicate the design
+# without real benefit. The main purpose of the below options are for use in
+# fuzzer configs to control reported data races, and are not expected to be
+# switched frequently by a user.
+
+config KCSAN_REPORT_RACE_UNKNOWN_ORIGIN
+ bool "Report races of unknown origin"
+ default y
+ help
+ If KCSAN should report races where only one access is known, and the
+ conflicting access is of unknown origin. This type of race is
+ reported if it was only possible to infer a race due to a data value
+ change while an access is being delayed on a watchpoint.
+
+config KCSAN_REPORT_VALUE_CHANGE_ONLY
+ bool "Only report races where watcher observed a data value change"
+ default y
+ help
+ If enabled and a conflicting write is observed via watchpoint, but
+ the data value of the memory location was observed to remain
+ unchanged, do not report the data race.
+
+config KCSAN_IGNORE_ATOMICS
+ bool "Do not instrument marked atomic accesses"
+ default n
+ help
+ If enabled, never instruments marked atomic accesses. This results in
+ not reporting data races where one access is atomic and the other is
+ a plain access.
+
+endif # KCSAN