Re: [PATCH 5/9] XArray: entry in last level is not expected to be a node

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Mar 30 2020 - 10:28:23 EST


On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 02:15:58PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 05:48:42AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:36:39PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> >> If an entry is at the last level, whose parent's shift is 0, it is not
> >> expected to be a node. We can just leverage the xa_is_node() check to
> >> break the loop instead of check shift additionally.
> >
> >I know you didn't run the test suite after making this change.
>
> I did kernel build test, but not the test suite as you mentioned.
>
> Would you mind sharing some steps on using the test suite? And which case you
> think would trigger the problem?

cd tools/testing/radix-tree/; make; ./main

The IDR tests are the ones which are going to trigger on this.