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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:33:38 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] compiler, atomics: Provide READ_ONCE_NOKSAN()
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:44:53PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> Some code may perform racy by design memory reads. This could be
> harmless, yet such code may produce KASAN warnings.
> 
> To hide such accesses from KASAN this patch introduces
> READ_ONCE_NOKSAN() macro. KASAN will not check the memory
> accessed by READ_ONCE_NOKSAN(). The KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN)
> is going to ignore it as well.

Frankly, the "NOKSAN" suffix is too specific. I know, I know, I'm
bikeshedding but what happens if yet another tool wants to be disabled
from checking there and that tool is not *SAN? We rename again?

So the "NOCHECK" suffix made much more sense, even if it was generic.
IMNSVHO.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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