Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] increase rcutorture intensity and fixa couple resulting bugs

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Sep 09 2009 - 14:23:10 EST


On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 01:43:59PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:53:49 PDT, "Paul E. McKenney" said:
> > This patch series increases the intensity of rcutorture testing for
> > TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and provides fixes for a couple resulting bugs.
>
> Minor bisection nit - should patch 1/3 be renumbered to 3/3, so the two bugfix
> patches go in before the patch that makes the unpatched bugs visible? Otherwise
> if a bisect waypoint happens to land on 1/3, oddness can happen...

Agreed. That said, the larger series of patches that this patchset
is part of has several other similar bisection issues. My guess is that
the larger series will be refactored at some point.

Besides which, I expect to be sending in more bug fixes...

Thanx, Paul
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