[tip: locking/kcsan] kcsan: Add docbook header for data_race()

From: tip-bot2 for Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Mar 24 2020 - 05:11:11 EST


The following commit has been merged into the locking/kcsan branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 7ad900d35b49af5a05f595d2274c32e69e01b055
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/7ad900d35b49af5a05f595d2274c32e69e01b055
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:42:18 -08:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 09:42:04 +01:00

kcsan: Add docbook header for data_race()

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compiler.h | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 8c0beb1..c1bdf37 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -315,13 +315,15 @@ unsigned long read_word_at_a_time(const void *addr)

#include <linux/kcsan.h>

-/*
- * data_race(): macro to document that accesses in an expression may conflict with
- * other concurrent accesses resulting in data races, but the resulting
- * behaviour is deemed safe regardless.
+/**
+ * data_race - mark an expression as containing intentional data races
+ *
+ * This data_race() macro is useful for situations in which data races
+ * should be forgiven. One example is diagnostic code that accesses
+ * shared variables but is not a part of the core synchronization design.
*
- * This macro *does not* affect normal code generation, but is a hint to tooling
- * that data races here should be ignored.
+ * This macro *does not* affect normal code generation, but is a hint
+ * to tooling that data races here are to be ignored.
*/
#define data_race(expr) \
({ \