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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/2] compiler, atomics: Provide READ_ONCE_NOKSAN()
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.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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