From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [patch v2 1/5] rtmutex: Remove builtin tester
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 15:55:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140531155557.768b53f4@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140531155739.175125650@linutronix.de>
On Sat, 31 May 2014 15:57:48 -0000
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> The tester has been broken for quite some time. It's possible to fix
> it, but the main reason for having it in the kernel was the lock steal
> mechanism in the rtmutex code. That's gone, so we can implement a
> stateful correctness tester just via the futex syscall.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I'm assuming that you only added what I said was missing. I didn't
re-review the rest of the patch.
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-- Steve
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140522031949.836503239@linutronix.de
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-31 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-31 15:57 [patch v2 0/5] rtmutex: Code clarification and optimization Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-31 15:57 ` [patch v2 1/5] rtmutex: Remove builtin tester Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-31 19:55 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2014-05-31 15:57 ` [patch v2 2/5] rtmutex: Cleanup deadlock detector debug logic Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-31 20:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-06-04 13:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-06-04 19:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-06-04 19:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-31 15:57 ` [patch v2 3/5] rtmutex: Confine deadlock logic to futex Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-31 19:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-31 20:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-31 15:57 ` [patch v2 4/5] rtmutex: Clarify the lock chain walk Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-31 20:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-31 15:57 ` [patch v2 5/5] rtmutex: Avoid pointless requeueing in the deadlock detection " Thomas Gleixner
2014-06-02 14:14 ` Steven Rostedt
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