Usage
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-To enable KASAN configure kernel with::
+To enable KASAN, configure the kernel with::
- CONFIG_KASAN = y
+ CONFIG_KASAN=y
-and choose between CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC (to enable generic KASAN),
-CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS (to enable software tag-based KASAN), and
-CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS (to enable hardware tag-based KASAN).
+and choose between ``CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC`` (to enable generic KASAN),
+``CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS`` (to enable software tag-based KASAN), and
+``CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS`` (to enable hardware tag-based KASAN).
-For software modes, you also need to choose between CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE and
-CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE. Outline and inline are compiler instrumentation types.
-The former produces smaller binary while the latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster.
+For software modes, also choose between ``CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE`` and
+``CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE``. Outline and inline are compiler instrumentation types.
+The former produces a smaller binary while the latter is 1.1-2 times faster.
-For better error reports that include stack traces, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
-
-To augment reports with last allocation and freeing stack of the physical page,
-it is recommended to enable also CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER and boot with page_owner=on.
+To include alloc and free stack traces of affected slab objects into reports,
+enable ``CONFIG_STACKTRACE``. To include alloc and free stack traces of affected
+physical pages, enable ``CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER`` and boot with ``page_owner=on``.
Error reports
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