On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:07:28AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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>
>
Much better, thanks. In particular, the information about TINY01 and
TINY02 was not obvious from the patch.
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
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