From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] fzsync: Add reproducing race-conditions section to docs
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:52:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190923155215.GA2531@dell5510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190923125914.2572-1-rpalethorpe@suse.com>
Hi Richie,
> Give people some hint about how to do this with the Fuzzy Sync library. This
> is really just a pointer. A full explanation would require way too much detail
> for this document.
> Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
Nice, thanks for caring about docs.
Acked-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> ---
> doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)
> diff --git a/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt b/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt
> index a735b43bb..49cc92a27 100644
> --- a/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt
> +++ b/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt
> @@ -1854,6 +1854,85 @@ However a lot of problems can be solved by using 'tst_cap_action(struct
> tst_cap *cap)' directly which can be called at any time. This also helps if
> you wish to drop a capability at the begining of setup.
> +2.2.33 Reproducing race-conditions
> +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> +
> +If a bug is caused by two tasks in the kernel racing and you wish to create a
> +regression test (or bug-fix validation test). The 'tst_fuzzy_sync.h' library
> +should be used.
Looks a bit strange to have this in 2 sentences (I'd write single one),
but you're a native speaker, so you must know what is correct :).
...
> +Fuzzy sync synchronises 'run_a' and 'run_b', which act as barriers, so that
> +niether thread can progress until the other has caught up with it. There is
typo: niether => neither
Kind regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-23 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-23 12:59 [LTP] [PATCH] fzsync: Add reproducing race-conditions section to docs Richard Palethorpe
2019-09-23 15:52 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2019-09-23 16:08 ` Steve East
2019-09-24 9:52 ` Richard Palethorpe
2019-09-27 9:14 ` Cyril Hrubis
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