Re: [PATCH] RCU: Fix macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 12:44:36PM +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 11:19 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 06:18:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > 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.  ;-)
> >
> > And another guess:  A tool that identifies use of Kconfig options
> > that are not defined in any Kconfig* file.
> Based on Paul's second guess ;-),  I did a small research, and I think
> the best answer is to modify scripts/checkpatch.pl. We modify checkpatch.pl
> to identify use of Kconfig options that are not defined in any Kconfig* file.
> 
> As I am a C/C++ programmer, I would be glad to take some time to learn
> perl (checkpatch is implented in perl) first if no other volunteer is
> about to do it ;-)

I haven't heard anyone else volunteer.  ;-)

Others might have opinions on where best to implement these checks,
but I must confess that I have not given it much thought.

							Thanx, Paul