linux-kernel - Re: Alleged fix for writer stall on -rcu branch dev

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Date:   Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:04:03 +0200
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Alleged fix for writer stall on -rcu branch dev

On 2019-04-15 03:56:45 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> This is new in rcutorture as well.  It is complaining that we just got
> done with a stutter interval (in which torturing temporarily stops)
> but not everything has progressed through the callback chain to be freed.
> And in this case it is happening during rcutorture shutdown, so I need
> to check the callback -- I might need end-of-run checks in that WARN_ON().

good so nothing important so far. I hope the box gets to TREE08 soon.
Do you want to me retrigger the run with your newer dev branch once it
is done?

> 
> 							Thanx, Paul

Sebastian