linux-kernel - Re: two RCU torture bugs

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Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	josh@...htriplett.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: two RCU torture bugs

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:08:37 -0700

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:56:59AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:50:36 -0700
>> 
>> > @@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ static bool __maybe_unused torturing_tasks(void)
>> >  
>> >  #define RCUTORTURE_TASKS_OPS
>> >  
>> > -static bool torturing_tasks(void)
>> > +static bool __maybe_unused torturing_tasks(void)
>> >  {
>> >  	return false;
>> >  }
>> 
>> This hunk gave a reject for me and I suspect was not intended to be included
>> in this fix?
> 
> Yeah, I should split that out, thank you for calling it out.  And yes,
> I made the patch against my experimental branch, so mileage may vary.
> 
>> I'll test the rest of the patch since that appears to be the important part.
>> :-)
> 
> Thank you!

It appears to work and the documentation update looks great too, so for both:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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