Re: [PATCH v4 01/10] kcsan: Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer infrastructure

From: Qian Cai
Date: Tue Jan 14 2020 - 16:48:39 EST




> On Jan 14, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As an alternative, once the patches needed for your tests to pass
> reach mainline, you could announce that KCSAN was ready to be enabled
> in distros.
>
> Though I confess that I don't know how that works. Is there a separate
> testing kernel binary provided by the distros in question?

I donât think I have powers to announce that. Once the feature hit the mainline, distro people could start to use in the debug kernel variant, and it is a shame to only find out it is broken. Anyway, Iâll try to edge out those corner cases. Stay tuned.