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Link to GWP-ASan hotlist in documentation

Bug: 896019
Change-Id: I3dd89c82f62806f494fc750f5062034f9bffc3e3
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/1423750
Auto-Submit: Vlad Tsyrklevich <vtsyrklevich@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Buka <vitalybuka@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Vitaly Buka <vitalybuka@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#624741}
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Vlad Tsyrklevich
2019-01-22 07:50:20 +00:00
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GWP-ASan is a debug tool intended to detect heap memory errors in the wild. It
samples allocations to a debug allocator, similar to ElectricFence or Page Heap,
in order to detect heap memory errors and report additional debugging context.
causing memory errors to crash and report additional debugging context about
the error.
## Allocator
@ -52,6 +53,9 @@ chrome --enable-features="GwpAsanMalloc<Study" \
--force-fieldtrial-params=Study.Group1:MaxAllocations/32/TotalPages/128/AllocationSamplingFrequency/1000/ProcessSamplingProbability/1.0
```
A [hotlist of bugs discovered by by GWP-ASan](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?can=1&q=Hotlist%3DGWP-ASan)
exists, though the bugs are filed without external visibility by default.
## Testing
There is [not yet](https://crbug.com/910751) a way to intentionally trigger a