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Message-ID: <20140416232331.GF4496@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:23:31 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Pranith Kumar <pranith@...ech.edu> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c: use macro to define module parameter On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 07:10:41PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Paul E. McKenney > <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > This fails for me. The problem is that the defined macro makes everything > > static, and rcutorture_runnable is used in kernel/sysctl.c. :-/ > > > > In theory, it would be possible to make torture_param() take "static" > > as a parameter, but this adds more characters than it removes. > > > > Oh, I just tried building it as a module and it worked. In the future > I will run this both as inbuilt and as a module before sending any > patches. > > Sorry for the noise! This is not noise! I do intend to use it as a module in the future, so it is helpful that you found and fixed the other bugs. I really cannot complain about one bad patch out of several useful fixes! So please do keep trying things and looking at things in RCU. ;-) Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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