linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/16] memblock tests: Add skeleton of the memblock simulator

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Message-ID: <78c62135ee4bc56ae144b266ffaabe8d2afb2928.camel@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:25:55 +0100
From:   Karolina Drobnik <karolinadrobnik@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        mike.rapoport@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/16] memblock tests: Add skeleton of the memblock
 simulator

On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 14:06 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 02:21:28PM +0100, Karolina Drobnik wrote:
> > +# Memblock simulator requires AddressSanitizer (libasan) and
> > liburcu libraries
> 
> Stale comment?  You don't seem to actually use liburcu.

I'm using uatomic_inc and uatomic_dec in tools/lib/slab.c. But, you're
right, memblock simulator doesn't use liburcu per se but uses code that
requires it. I wasn't sure where and how to communicate it, so I added
this comment here.