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behaviour when encountering a data race is deemed safe. Please see
`"Marking Shared-Memory Accesses" in the LKMM`_ for more information.
+* Similar to ``data_race(...)``, the type qualifier ``__data_racy`` can be used
+ to document that all data races due to accesses to a variable are intended
+ and should be ignored by KCSAN::
+
+ struct foo {
+ ...
+ int __data_racy stats_counter;
+ ...
+ };
+
* Disabling data race detection for entire functions can be accomplished by
using the function attribute ``__no_kcsan``::