1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
6 config HAVE_KCSAN_COMPILER
7 def_bool CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-fsanitize=thread -mllvm -tsan-distinguish-volatile=1)
9 For the list of compilers that support KCSAN, please see
10 <file:Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst>.
12 config KCSAN_KCOV_BROKEN
13 def_bool KCOV && CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC
14 depends on CC_IS_CLANG
15 depends on !$(cc-option,-Werror=unused-command-line-argument -fsanitize=thread -fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc)
17 Some versions of clang support either KCSAN and KCOV but not the
18 combination of the two.
19 See https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45831 for the status
23 bool "KCSAN: dynamic data race detector"
24 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN && HAVE_KCSAN_COMPILER
25 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !KASAN
26 depends on !KCSAN_KCOV_BROKEN
29 The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) is a dynamic
30 data-race detector that relies on compile-time instrumentation.
31 KCSAN uses a watchpoint-based sampling approach to detect races.
33 While KCSAN's primary purpose is to detect data races, it
34 also provides assertions to check data access constraints.
35 These assertions can expose bugs that do not manifest as
38 See <file:Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst> for more details.
43 bool "Show verbose reports with more information about system state"
44 depends on PROVE_LOCKING
46 If enabled, reports show more information about the system state that
47 may help better analyze and debug races. This includes held locks and
50 While this option should generally be benign, we call into more
51 external functions on report generation; if a race report is
52 generated from any one of them, system stability may suffer due to
53 deadlocks or recursion. If in doubt, say N.
56 bool "Debugging of KCSAN internals"
59 bool "Perform short selftests on boot"
62 Run KCSAN selftests on boot. On test failure, causes the kernel to panic.
64 config KCSAN_EARLY_ENABLE
65 bool "Early enable during boot"
68 If KCSAN should be enabled globally as soon as possible. KCSAN can
69 later be enabled/disabled via debugfs.
71 config KCSAN_NUM_WATCHPOINTS
72 int "Number of available watchpoints"
75 Total number of available watchpoints. An address range maps into a
76 specific watchpoint slot as specified in kernel/kcsan/encoding.h.
77 Although larger number of watchpoints may not be usable due to
78 limited number of CPUs, a larger value helps to improve performance
79 due to reducing cache-line contention. The chosen default is a
80 conservative value; we should almost never observe "no_capacity"
81 events (see /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan).
83 config KCSAN_UDELAY_TASK
84 int "Delay in microseconds (for tasks)"
87 For tasks, the microsecond delay after setting up a watchpoint.
89 config KCSAN_UDELAY_INTERRUPT
90 int "Delay in microseconds (for interrupts)"
93 For interrupts, the microsecond delay after setting up a watchpoint.
94 Interrupts have tighter latency requirements, and their delay should
95 be lower than for tasks.
97 config KCSAN_DELAY_RANDOMIZE
98 bool "Randomize above delays"
101 If delays should be randomized, where the maximum is KCSAN_UDELAY_*.
102 If false, the chosen delays are always the KCSAN_UDELAY_* values
105 config KCSAN_SKIP_WATCH
106 int "Skip instructions before setting up watchpoint"
109 The number of per-CPU memory operations to skip, before another
110 watchpoint is set up, i.e. one in KCSAN_WATCH_SKIP per-CPU
111 memory operations are used to set up a watchpoint. A smaller value
112 results in more aggressive race detection, whereas a larger value
113 improves system performance at the cost of missing some races.
115 config KCSAN_SKIP_WATCH_RANDOMIZE
116 bool "Randomize watchpoint instruction skip count"
119 If instruction skip count should be randomized, where the maximum is
120 KCSAN_WATCH_SKIP. If false, the chosen value is always
123 config KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER
124 bool "Interruptible watchers"
126 If enabled, a task that set up a watchpoint may be interrupted while
127 delayed. This option will allow KCSAN to detect races between
128 interrupted tasks and other threads of execution on the same CPU.
130 Currently disabled by default, because not all safe per-CPU access
131 primitives and patterns may be accounted for, and therefore could
132 result in false positives.
134 config KCSAN_REPORT_ONCE_IN_MS
135 int "Duration in milliseconds, in which any given race is only reported once"
138 Any given race is only reported once in the defined time window.
139 Different races may still generate reports within a duration that is
140 smaller than the duration defined here. This allows rate limiting
141 reporting to avoid flooding the console with reports. Setting this
142 to 0 disables rate limiting.
144 # The main purpose of the below options is to control reported data races (e.g.
145 # in fuzzer configs), and are not expected to be switched frequently by other
146 # users. We could turn some of them into boot parameters, but given they should
147 # not be switched normally, let's keep them here to simplify configuration.
149 # The defaults below are chosen to be very conservative, and may miss certain
152 config KCSAN_REPORT_RACE_UNKNOWN_ORIGIN
153 bool "Report races of unknown origin"
156 If KCSAN should report races where only one access is known, and the
157 conflicting access is of unknown origin. This type of race is
158 reported if it was only possible to infer a race due to a data value
159 change while an access is being delayed on a watchpoint.
161 config KCSAN_REPORT_VALUE_CHANGE_ONLY
162 bool "Only report races where watcher observed a data value change"
165 If enabled and a conflicting write is observed via a watchpoint, but
166 the data value of the memory location was observed to remain
167 unchanged, do not report the data race.
169 config KCSAN_ASSUME_PLAIN_WRITES_ATOMIC
170 bool "Assume that plain aligned writes up to word size are atomic"
173 Assume that plain aligned writes up to word size are atomic by
174 default, and also not subject to other unsafe compiler optimizations
175 resulting in data races. This will cause KCSAN to not report data
176 races due to conflicts where the only plain accesses are aligned
177 writes up to word size: conflicts between marked reads and plain
178 aligned writes up to word size will not be reported as data races;
179 notice that data races between two conflicting plain aligned writes
180 will also not be reported.
182 config KCSAN_IGNORE_ATOMICS
183 bool "Do not instrument marked atomic accesses"
185 Never instrument marked atomic accesses. This option can be used for
186 additional filtering. Conflicting marked atomic reads and plain
187 writes will never be reported as a data race, however, will cause
188 plain reads and marked writes to result in "unknown origin" reports.
189 If combined with CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_RACE_UNKNOWN_ORIGIN=n, data
190 races where at least one access is marked atomic will never be
193 Similar to KCSAN_ASSUME_PLAIN_WRITES_ATOMIC, but including unaligned
194 accesses, conflicting marked atomic reads and plain writes will not
195 be reported as data races; however, unlike that option, data races
196 due to two conflicting plain writes will be reported (aligned and
197 unaligned, if CONFIG_KCSAN_ASSUME_PLAIN_WRITES_ATOMIC=n).