linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing

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Date:	Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:23:47 +0800
From:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing

Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> 
> You tried this without your changes and it passed, correct?
> 
> Never forget to test the base kernel.  ;-)
> 

Thanks, but I make some mistake here.

I tested the base kernel, no bug occurred.
So I try to find out bugs in my changes in 2 weeks.

I added debug codes and these codes showed all processing
are right and no callback broke its grace period
but the bug still occurred.

When I was puzzled after 2 weeks, I looked back the base
kernel that I had tested, and I found that I forget to set
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y.

Then I set CONFIG_NO_HZ=y in the base kernel, and the bug
occurred. It's exactly as the bug when my patch applied.

I have reported this bug here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/3/24

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