From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C8FC636C9 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28256128D for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236973AbhGOSMf (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:12:35 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:37472 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231970AbhGOSMf (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:12:35 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B1CF261289; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:09:41 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1626372581; bh=irYZePOTsExTG/YVIdVkIAar0SBLVHgC4JlvhEGcTYM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Reply-To:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=KfQvT4hXs224Ib9VRB9q9scjEWH9IsguwjBLktw+UVs7tAP147CHJSHqEBakacb0c YeqCzwuUpgrWccEAE+0qT7VKNk6lFQfobuDZXrtrWVKJPdVhY5i5FHRcyRhSy9po8Z CtdX2A9oVkGhdINpS0xUftPv96dO+Cj0yG0vjNl0mBoulg48PTsRLqtr6YXPv8mCky s7iYlkORJM0Lfv8/NEh84970FleRBbn0nk2Y+VA8uROC31a4GJfgAZL2/yDUBPi+fA nyPR8ujtLUrGKhZqPfHpDj67Og5CXbPABy1c3Zg9CI/5m0fJFVJHzc3IU67hYgh3Pl OULrUwiG3gJ8Q== Received: by paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7FDD95C0373; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:09:41 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Zhouyi Zhou Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , Josh Triplett , rostedt , Lai Jiangshan , "Joel Fernandes, Google" , rcu , linux-kernel , apw@canonical.com, joe@perches.com, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org, kafai@fb.com, songliubraving@fb.com, yhs@fb.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] RCU: Fix macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE Message-ID: <20210715180941.GK4397@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> Reply-To: paulmck@kernel.org References: <20210713005645.8565-1-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com> <20210713041607.GU4397@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> <520385500.15226.1626181744332.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> <20210713131812.GV4397@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> <20210713151908.GW4397@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> <20210715035149.GI4397@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: bpf@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 04:45:04PM +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:51 AM Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > 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 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@kernel.org wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:56:45AM +0800, zhouzhouyi@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > >> From: Zhouyi Zhou > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > I recklessly cc the maintainers of checkpatch.pl without your > permission to see others' opion, > and I begin to study perl at the same time, after all, learning > something is always good ;-) Works for me! Thanx, Paul