From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755608AbaEaT4A (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2014 15:56:00 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.231]:24978 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753285AbaEaTz7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2014 15:55:59 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 15:55:57 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Lai Jiangshan , Jason Low Subject: Re: [patch v2 1/5] rtmutex: Remove builtin tester Message-ID: <20140531155557.768b53f4@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20140531155739.175125650@linutronix.de> References: <20140531155229.493650009@linutronix.de> <20140531155739.175125650@linutronix.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 31 May 2014 15:57:48 -0000 Thomas Gleixner 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 > Cc: Peter Zijlstra > Cc: Steven Rostedt 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 -- Steve > Cc: Lai Jiangshan > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140522031949.836503239@linutronix.de > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner