From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754053AbZIISXB (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:23:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753875AbZIISXA (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:23:00 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:56165 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752502AbZIISXA (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:23:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:23:00 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] increase rcutorture intensity and fix a couple resulting bugs Message-ID: <20090909182300.GE6749@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20090908225349.GA19524@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <21629.1252518239@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21629.1252518239@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 01:43:59PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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