linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v6 04/13] futex,rt_mutex: Provide futex specific rt

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Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2017 10:02:12 -0700
From:   Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org, juri.lelli@....com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, xlpang@...hat.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        jdesfossez@...icios.com, bristot@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v6 04/13] futex,rt_mutex: Provide futex specific
 rt_mutex API

On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 02:15:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 05:37:02PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> > 
> > But, Peter are you testing this with anything in particular?
> 
> Testing? :-)
> 
> I ran some of the futex pi tests we have, and have a slightly modified
> kernel+version of pi_stress to trigger more funnies.
> 
> Other than that Sebastian ran various versions through -rt and their
> customer workloads (and found bugs).
> 

OK, that's more or less what I assumed, but wanted to confirm. I'm bubbling up
the futex torture test suite on my priority list (now that I find myself with a
lot more time available for this stuff) \o/

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center