linux-kernel - Re: two RCU torture bugs

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Message-ID: <20150824205857.GP11078@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:58:57 -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 Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 01:39:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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>

Thank you very much, applied!

							Thanx, Paul

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