linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/5] rcu: Make rcutorture emit online failures if verbose

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Date:	Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:59:05 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
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	sbw@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/5] rcu: Make rcutorture emit online
 failures if verbose

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 07:25:17PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Although rcutorture counts CPU-hotplug online failures, it does
> not explicitly record which CPUs were having trouble coming online.
> This commit therefore emits a console message when online failure occurs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

One completely optional note below; with or without that change,
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>

>  kernel/rcutorture.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c
> index 7d42d13..15bec39 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcutorture.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c
> @@ -1437,7 +1437,13 @@ rcu_torture_onoff(void *arg)
>  					 torture_type, cpu);
>  			starttime = jiffies;
>  			n_online_attempts++;
> -			if (cpu_up(cpu) == 0) {
> +			ret = cpu_up(cpu);
> +			if (ret != 0) {

Or just "if (ret) {"

- Josh Triplett
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