linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.4.1-rt6

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Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:19:32 -0600
From:	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.4.1-rt6

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:53:58 -0600
Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:47:08 +0100
> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > - There is a useless rcu_bh thread which has been deactivated.
> >   
> 
> For some strange reason I had RCU_TORTURE_TEST defined in my config. This caused my compile to blow up because kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c wanted to test the (now ifdef'ed out) rcu_bh routines. This fixes the compile issue but is untested for actually *running* rcutorture. I'll try that on a test box tomorrow. 
> 
>

Successfully ran rcutorture for 5m on my test system with no errors reported and no _bh_ threads started. 

Clark

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