On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 05:59:29PM -0700, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:49:12PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > Reported-by: "Ahmed, Iftekhar" <ahm...@onid.oregonstate.edu>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Could you elaborate a bit more on this patch (ideally in its commit
> message)? I see an addition of a command-line parameter to test rcu_bh;
> is rcu-sched already tested elsewhere by some other config, or does this
> parameter somehow enable testing both?
The commit log now reads as follows, does that help?
Thanx, Paul
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rcutorture: Test both RCU-sched and RCU-bh for Tiny RCU
Tiny RCU supports both RCU-sched and RCU-bh, but only RCU-sched is
currently tested by the rcutorture scripts. This commit therefore
changes the TINY02 configuration to test RCU-bh, with TINY01 continuing
to test RCU-sched.
This shortcoming of the current rcutorture tests was located by mutation
testing by Iftekhar. The idea behind mutation testing is to automatically
mutate the code under test. If a given mutant is not caught by testing,
this is a hint that the testing might need to be improved, as was the
case here. Note that this is only a hint because it is possible to mutate
the code into something else that still works. For example, a mutation
that removes (say) a WARN_ON() will not normally result in a test failure.
This change resulted in the test failure caused by list mishandling,
which is fixed by the next commit.
Reported-by: "Ahmed, Iftekhar" <ahm...@onid.oregonstate.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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