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Commit 5cc906b4 authored by Marco Elver's avatar Marco Elver Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kfence: add note to documentation about skipping covered allocations

Add a note briefly mentioning the new policy about "skipping currently
covered allocations if pool close to full." Since this has a notable
impact on KFENCE's bug-detection ability on systems with large uptimes,
it is worth pointing out the feature.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923104803.2620285-5-elver@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Taras Madan <tarasmadan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 08f6b106
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