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[rtsan][NFC] Documentation of suppression flag (llvm#112727)
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- ``true``
- boolean
- If set, use the symbolizer to turn virtual addresses to file/line locations. If false, can greatly speed up the error reporting.
* - ``suppressions``
- ""
- path
- If set to a valid suppressions file, will suppress issue reporting. See details in "Disabling", below.


Some issues with flags can be debugged using the ``verbosity=$NUM`` flag:
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misspelled_flag
...
Disabling
---------
Disabling and suppressing
-------------------------

In some circumstances, you may want to suppress error reporting in a specific scope.
There are multiple ways to disable error reporting when using RealtimeSanitizer.

In C++, this is achieved via ``__rtsan::ScopedDisabler``. Within the scope where the ``ScopedDisabler`` object is instantiated, all sanitizer error reports are suppressed. This suppression applies to the current scope as well as all invoked functions, including any functions called transitively.
In general, ``ScopedDisabler`` should be preferred, as it is the most performant.

.. list-table:: Suppression methods
:widths: 30 15 15 10 70
:header-rows: 1

* - Method
- Specified at?
- Scope
- Run-time cost
- Description
* - ``ScopedDisabler``
- Compile-time
- Stack
- Very low
- Violations are ignored for the lifetime of the ``ScopedDisabler`` object.
* - ``function-name-matches`` suppression
- Run-time
- Single function
- Medium
- Suppresses intercepted and ``[[clang::blocking]]`` function calls by name.
* - ``call-stack-contains`` suppression
- Run-time
- Stack
- High
- Suppresses any stack trace contaning the specified pattern.


``ScopedDisabler``
##################

At compile time, RealtimeSanitizer may be disabled using ``__rtsan::ScopedDisabler``. RTSan ignores any errors originating within the ``ScopedDisabler`` instance variable scope.

.. code-block:: c++

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Each call to ``__rtsan_disable()`` must be paired with a subsequent call to ``__rtsan_enable()`` to restore normal sanitizer functionality. If a corresponding ``rtsan_enable()`` call is not made, the behavior is undefined.

Suppression file
################

At run-time, suppressions may be specified using a suppressions file passed in ``RTSAN_OPTIONS``. Run-time suppression may be useful if the source cannot be changed.

.. code-block:: console
> cat suppressions.supp
call-stack-contains:MallocViolation
call-stack-contains:std::*vector
function-name-matches:free
function-name-matches:CustomMarkedBlocking*
> RTSAN_OPTIONS="suppressions=suppressions.supp" ./a.out
...
Suppressions specified in this file are one of two flavors.

``function-name-matches`` suppresses reporting of any intercepted library call, or function marked ``[[clang::blocking]]`` by name. If, for instance, you know that ``malloc`` is real-time safe on your system, you can disable the check for it via ``function-name-matches:malloc``.

``call-stack-contains`` suppresses reporting of errors in any stack that contains a string matching the pattern specified. For example, suppressing error reporting of any non-real-time-safe behavior in ``std::vector`` may be specified ``call-stack-contains:std::*vector``. You must include symbols in your build for this method to be effective, unsymbolicated stack traces cannot be matched. ``call-stack-contains`` has the highest run-time cost of any method of suppression.

Patterns may be exact matches or are "regex-light" patterns, containing special characters such as ``^$*``.

The number of potential errors suppressed via this method may be seen on exit when using the ``print_stats_on_exit`` flag.

Compile-time sanitizer detection
--------------------------------

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