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The Kconfig help text for CONFIG_KCOV describes that recorded PC values
will not be stable across machines or reboots when RANDOMIZE_BASE is
selected. This was the case when KCOV was introduced in commit:
5c9a8750a6409c63 ("kernel: add kcov code coverage")
However, this changed in commit:
4983f0ab7ffaad1e ("kcov: make kcov work properly with KASLR enabled")
Since that commit KCOV always subtracts the KASLR offset from PC values,
which ensures that these are stable across machines and across reboots
even when RANDOMIZE_BASE is selected.
Unfortunately, that commit failed to update the Kconfig help text, which
still suggests disabling RANDOMIZE_BASE even though this is no longer
necessary.
Remove the stale Kconfig text.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231204171807.3313022-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.