linux-kernel - Re: two RCU torture bugs

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Date:	Sun, 23 Aug 2015 22:29:15 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	josh@...htriplett.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: two RCU torture bugs

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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