From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: two RCU torture bugs
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 22:29:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150824052915.GD11078@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150823.220749.376054183826529698.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:07:49PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> 1) Doc bug, documentation mentions torture_type such as "rcu_sync",
> but those don't seem to exist.
>
> 2) If you specify an unrecognized type, the module cannot be unloaded.
> Amusingly it says that it cannot unload because the unrecognized
> torture test type you requested is "running" :-)
Clearly Iftekhar was mutating the wrong code. ;-)
And clearly I need to occasionally test failure cases. There is code that
is supposed to unwind upon failure, but it has apparently bitrotted...
Thanx, Paul
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-24 5:07 two RCU torture bugs David Miller
2015-08-24 5:29 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2015-08-24 18:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-24 18:56 ` David Miller
2015-08-24 20:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-24 20:39 ` David Miller
2015-08-24 20:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
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