Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 42/55] rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exitloops at end of test

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Oct 24 2011 - 08:11:05 EST


On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 06:53:29PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:00:36AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > The rcu_torture_fqs() function can prevent the rcutorture tests from
> > completing, resulting in a hang. This commit therefore ensures that
> > rcu_torture_fqs() will exit its inner loops at the end of the test,
> > and also applies the newish ULONG_CMP_LT() macro to time comparisons.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This seems like two entirely separate changes, which should go in
> separate commits.

Interesting. I was thinking of this as fixing hangs in rcutorture,
and was feeling somewhat bad about having the separate commit for the
part of the fix that I missed. ;-)

Thanx, Paul

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