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Commit dd03762a authored by Kefeng Wang's avatar Kefeng Wang Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: Enable KCSAN

This patch enables KCSAN for arm64, with updates to build rules
to not use KCSAN for several incompatible compilation units.

Recent GCC version(at least GCC10) made outline-atomics as the
default option(unlike Clang), which will cause linker errors
for kernel/kcsan/core.o. Disables the out-of-line atomics by
no-outline-atomics to fix the linker errors.

Meanwhile, as Mark said[1], some latent issues are needed to be
fixed which isn't just a KCSAN problem, we make the KCSAN depends
on EXPERT for now.

Tested selftest and kcsan_test(built with GCC11 and Clang 13),
and all passed.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YadiUPpJ0gADbiHQ@FVFF77S0Q05N



Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> # kernel/kcsan
Tested-by: default avatarJoey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211211131734.126874-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com


[catalin.marinas@arm.com: added comment to justify EXPERT]
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent d58071a8
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