Re: [PATCH] [v2] test_rhashtable: remove semaphore usage

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 8:50 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is one of only two files that initialize a semaphore to a negative
> value. We don't really need the two semaphores here at all, but can do
> the same thing in more conventional and more effient way, by using a
> single waitqueue and an atomic thread counter.
>
> This gets us a little bit closer to eliminating classic semaphores from
> the kernel. It also fixes a corner case where we fail to continue after
> one of the threads fails to start up.
>
> An alternative would be to use a split kthread_create()+wake_up_process()
> and completely eliminate the separate synchronization.
>
> Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
>  - rebase to mainline,
>  - fix pr_err() output
>  - bail out if interrupted

Now this is upstream as 809c67059162e7ba ("test_rhashtable: remove
semaphore usage"), I gave test_rhashtable a try again on m68k/ARAnyM.
And it succeeded, without my workaround from
https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg134240.html
Interestingly, it still succeeded without the workaround after reverting
809c67059162e7ba, so some other change during the last two years must
have fixed this.

I have no plans to bisect this, though.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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