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kcsan: Use URL link for pointing access-marking.txt

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For consistency within kcsan.rst, use a URL link as the same as in
section "Data Races".

Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Akira Yokosawa 2021-05-13 10:49:41 -07:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
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@ -89,8 +89,7 @@ the below options are available:
* KCSAN understands the ``data_race(expr)`` annotation, which tells KCSAN that
any data races due to accesses in ``expr`` should be ignored and resulting
behaviour when encountering a data race is deemed safe. Please see
``tools/memory-model/Documentation/access-marking.txt`` in the kernel source
tree for more information.
`"Marking Shared-Memory Accesses" in the LKMM`_ for more information.
* Disabling data race detection for entire functions can be accomplished by
using the function attribute ``__no_kcsan``::
@ -112,6 +111,8 @@ the below options are available:
KCSAN_SANITIZE := n
.. _"Marking Shared-Memory Accesses" in the LKMM: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/memory-model/Documentation/access-marking.txt
Furthermore, it is possible to tell KCSAN to show or hide entire classes of
data races, depending on preferences. These can be changed via the following
Kconfig options: