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-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/faq.rst40
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/kunit-tool.rst17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst2
5 files changed, 53 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index c652d740735d..38fd5681fade 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -13,11 +13,8 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation to insert validity checks before every
memory access, and therefore requires a compiler version that supports that.
Generic KASAN is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version
-4.9.2 or later for basic support and version 5.0 or later for detection of
-out-of-bounds accesses for stack and global variables and for inline
-instrumentation mode (see the Usage section). With Clang it requires version
-7.0.0 or later and it doesn't support detection of out-of-bounds accesses for
-global variables yet.
+8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or later, but detection of
+out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is only supported since Clang 11.
Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang and requires version 7.0.0 or later.
@@ -193,6 +190,9 @@ function calls GCC directly inserts the code to check the shadow memory.
This option significantly enlarges kernel but it gives x1.1-x2 performance
boost over outline instrumented kernel.
+Generic KASAN prints up to 2 call_rcu() call stacks in reports, the last one
+and the second to last.
+
Software tag-based KASAN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst
index ce4bbd918648..be7a0b0e1f28 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ approach to detect races. KCSAN's primary purpose is to detect `data races`_.
Usage
-----
-KCSAN requires Clang version 11 or later.
+KCSAN is supported by both GCC and Clang. With GCC we require version 11 or
+later, and with Clang also require version 11 or later.
To enable KCSAN configure the kernel with::
@@ -114,12 +115,6 @@ the below options are available:
To dynamically limit for which functions to generate reports, see the
`DebugFS interface`_ blacklist/whitelist feature.
- For ``__always_inline`` functions, replace ``__always_inline`` with
- ``__no_kcsan_or_inline`` (which implies ``__always_inline``)::
-
- static __no_kcsan_or_inline void foo(void) {
- ...
-
* To disable data race detection for a particular compilation unit, add to the
``Makefile``::
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/faq.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/faq.rst
index ea55b2467653..1628862e7024 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/faq.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/faq.rst
@@ -61,3 +61,43 @@ test, or an end-to-end test.
kernel by installing a production configuration of the kernel on production
hardware with a production userspace and then trying to exercise some behavior
that depends on interactions between the hardware, the kernel, and userspace.
+
+KUnit isn't working, what should I do?
+======================================
+
+Unfortunately, there are a number of things which can break, but here are some
+things to try.
+
+1. Try running ``./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run`` with the ``--raw_output``
+ parameter. This might show details or error messages hidden by the kunit_tool
+ parser.
+2. Instead of running ``kunit.py run``, try running ``kunit.py config``,
+ ``kunit.py build``, and ``kunit.py exec`` independently. This can help track
+ down where an issue is occurring. (If you think the parser is at fault, you
+ can run it manually against stdin or a file with ``kunit.py parse``.)
+3. Running the UML kernel directly can often reveal issues or error messages
+ kunit_tool ignores. This should be as simple as running ``./vmlinux`` after
+ building the UML kernel (e.g., by using ``kunit.py build``). Note that UML
+ has some unusual requirements (such as the host having a tmpfs filesystem
+ mounted), and has had issues in the past when built statically and the host
+ has KASLR enabled. (On older host kernels, you may need to run ``setarch
+ `uname -m` -R ./vmlinux`` to disable KASLR.)
+4. Make sure the kernel .config has ``CONFIG_KUNIT=y`` and at least one test
+ (e.g. ``CONFIG_KUNIT_EXAMPLE_TEST=y``). kunit_tool will keep its .config
+ around, so you can see what config was used after running ``kunit.py run``.
+ It also preserves any config changes you might make, so you can
+ enable/disable things with ``make ARCH=um menuconfig`` or similar, and then
+ re-run kunit_tool.
+5. Try to run ``make ARCH=um defconfig`` before running ``kunit.py run``. This
+ may help clean up any residual config items which could be causing problems.
+6. Finally, try running KUnit outside UML. KUnit and KUnit tests can run be
+ built into any kernel, or can be built as a module and loaded at runtime.
+ Doing so should allow you to determine if UML is causing the issue you're
+ seeing. When tests are built-in, they will execute when the kernel boots, and
+ modules will automatically execute associated tests when loaded. Test results
+ can be collected from ``/sys/kernel/debug/kunit/<test suite>/results``, and
+ can be parsed with ``kunit.py parse``. For more details, see "KUnit on
+ non-UML architectures" in :doc:`usage`.
+
+If none of the above tricks help, you are always welcome to email any issues to
+kunit-dev@googlegroups.com.
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/kunit-tool.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/kunit-tool.rst
index 949af2da81e5..29ae2fee8123 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/kunit-tool.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/kunit-tool.rst
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ compiles the kernel as a standalone Linux executable that can be run like any
other program directly inside of a host operating system. To be clear, it does
not require any virtualization support: it is just a regular program.
-What is a kunitconfig?
-======================
+What is a .kunitconfig?
+=======================
It's just a defconfig that kunit_tool looks for in the base directory.
kunit_tool uses it to generate a .config as you might expect. In addition, it
verifies that the generated .config contains the CONFIG options in the
-kunitconfig; the reason it does this is so that it is easy to be sure that a
+.kunitconfig; the reason it does this is so that it is easy to be sure that a
CONFIG that enables a test actually ends up in the .config.
How do I use kunit_tool?
@@ -46,16 +46,9 @@ However, you most likely want to use it with the following options:
- ``--timeout`` sets a maximum amount of time to allow tests to run.
- ``--jobs`` sets the number of threads to use to build the kernel.
-If you just want to use the defconfig that ships with the kernel, you can
-append the ``--defconfig`` flag as well:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
- ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --timeout=30 --jobs=`nproc --all` --defconfig
-
.. note::
- This command is particularly helpful for getting started because it
- just works. No kunitconfig needs to be present.
+ This command will work even without a .kunitconfig file: if no
+ .kunitconfig is present, a default one will be used instead.
For a list of all the flags supported by kunit_tool, you can run:
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
index bb112cf70624..d23385e3e159 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The wrapper can be run with:
.. code-block:: bash
- ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --defconfig
+ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run
For more information on this wrapper (also called kunit_tool) check out the
:doc:`kunit-tool` page.