Re: [PATCH] RCU: Fix macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:09:04AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Jul 13, 2021, at 12:16 AM, paulmck paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:56:45AM +0800, zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> From: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> 
> >> Hi Paul,
> >> 
> >> During my studying of RCU, I did a grep in the kernel source tree.
> >> I found there are 3 places where the macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE
> >> should be CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU instead.
> >> 
> >> Without memory fencing, the idle/userspace task inspection may not
> >> be so accurate.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for your constant encouragement for my studying.
> >> 
> >> Best Wishes
> >> Zhouyi
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Good eyes, and those could cause real bugs, so thank you!
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> This makes me wonder: what is missing testing-wise in rcutorture to
> catch those issues with testing before they reach mainline ?

My guess:  Running on weakly ordered architectures.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul