[PATCH] mm, kasan: Update kasan docs to indicate arm64 support

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[PATCH] mm, kasan: Update kasan docs to indicate arm64 support

From: Laura Abbott <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-16 16:38:01

KASAN has been supported on arm64 since 39d114ddc682 ("arm64: add KASAN
support"). Update the docs to indicate this.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <redacted>
---
 Documentation/kasan.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt
index 7dd95b3..d167220 100644
--- a/Documentation/kasan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
 therefore you will need a GCC version 4.9.2 or later. GCC 5.0 or later is
 required for detection of out-of-bounds accesses to stack or global variables.
 
-Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 architecture.
+Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 and arm64 architecture.
 
 1. Usage
 ========
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH] mm, kasan: Update kasan docs to indicate arm64 support

From: Andrey Ryabinin <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-17 18:19:24


On 08/16/2016 07:30 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
KASAN has been supported on arm64 since 39d114ddc682 ("arm64: add KASAN
support"). Update the docs to indicate this.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <redacted>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <redacted>
quoted hunk
---
 Documentation/kasan.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt
index 7dd95b3..d167220 100644
--- a/Documentation/kasan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
 therefore you will need a GCC version 4.9.2 or later. GCC 5.0 or later is
 required for detection of out-of-bounds accesses to stack or global variables.
 
-Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 architecture.
+Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 and arm64 architecture.
 
 1. Usage
 ========

Re: [PATCH] mm, kasan: Update kasan docs to indicate arm64 support

From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: 2016-08-19 00:48:43

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:30:31 -0700
Laura Abbott [off-list ref] wrote:
KASAN has been supported on arm64 since 39d114ddc682 ("arm64: add KASAN
support"). Update the docs to indicate this.
This creates a conflict with my patch sphinxifying this file, of course,
but I'll cope.  Applied to the docs tree, thanks.

jon
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