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@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ parameter can be used to control panic and reporting behaviour:
- ``kasan.fault=report``, ``=panic``, or ``=panic_on_write`` controls whether
to only print a KASAN report, panic the kernel, or panic the kernel on
invalid writes only (default: ``report``). The panic happens even if
- ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled.
+ ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. Note that when using asynchronous mode of
+ Hardware Tag-Based KASAN, ``kasan.fault=panic_on_write`` always panics on
+ asynchronously checked accesses (including reads).
Software and Hardware Tag-Based KASAN modes (see the section about various
modes below) support altering stack trace collection behavior: