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[4/8] doc: Add CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to checklist.rst

Message ID 20240126035816.3129296-5-boqun.feng@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 3741a7e5d29548e8402f2e33419175e6e2d42afa
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Series RCU doc updates for v6.9 | expand

Commit Message

Boqun Feng Jan. 26, 2024, 3:58 a.m. UTC 
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>

This commit adds CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to the list of debugging
Kconfig options in checklist.rst.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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 Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst | 6 ++++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst
index 98a622f77248..addd5c1547a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst
@@ -491,6 +491,12 @@  over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
 		since the last time that you passed that same object to
 		call_rcu() (or friends).
 
+	CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD:
+		combine with KASAN to check for pointers leaked out
+		of RCU read-side critical sections.  This Kconfig
+		option is tough on both performance and scalability,
+		and so is limited to four-CPU systems.
+
 	__rcu sparse checks:
 		tag the pointer to the RCU-protected data structure
 		with __rcu, and sparse will warn you if you access that