Re: two RCU torture bugs

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Aug 24 2015 - 01:29:25 EST


On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:07:49PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> 1) Doc bug, documentation mentions torture_type such as "rcu_sync",
> but those don't seem to exist.
>
> 2) If you specify an unrecognized type, the module cannot be unloaded.
> Amusingly it says that it cannot unload because the unrecognized
> torture test type you requested is "running" :-)

Clearly Iftekhar was mutating the wrong code. ;-)

And clearly I need to occasionally test failure cases. There is code that
is supposed to unwind upon failure, but it has apparently bitrotted...

Thanx, Paul

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