Re: [PATCH 3/8] kcsan: Skew delay to be longer for certain access types

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 10:05:34 EST


On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:30:11PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> For compound instrumentation and assert accesses, skew the watchpoint
> delay to be longer. We still shouldn't exceed the maximum delays, but it
> is safe to skew the delay for these accesses.

Complete lack of actual justification.. *why* are you doing this, and
*why* is it safe etc..