mm, kcsan: Enable barrier instrumentation
authorMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:44:28 +0000 (12:44 +0100)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:42:28 +0000 (16:42 -0800)
commitd37d1fa0154ef3920ad1975aadc083cecdf81b3b
treef8d7d0c880c603a21689fb7ccf1a07d51ce92476
parentd93414e37586691dd2684a7f8ed05fb9cd640f83
mm, kcsan: Enable barrier instrumentation

Some memory management calls imply memory barriers that are required to
avoid false positives. For example, without the correct instrumentation,
we could observe data races of the following variant:

                   T0           |           T1
        ------------------------+------------------------
                                |
         *a = 42;    ---+       |
         kfree(a);      |       |
                        |       | b = kmalloc(..); // b == a
          <reordered> <-+       | *b = 42;         // not a data race!
                                |

Therefore, instrument memory barriers in all allocator code currently
not being instrumented in a default build.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
mm/Makefile