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Date:   Wed, 8 Nov 2017 06:45:23 -0800
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] locktorture: Fix Oops when reader/writer count is 0
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On Tue, 07 Nov 2017, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 10:07:48PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 02:01:58PM -0600, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On 10/10/2017 10:52 AM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>> > >If nwriters_stress=0 is passed to the lock torture test
>> > >it will panic in:
>> >
>> > Ping?
>> >
>> > Has anyone had a chance to look at this?
>>
>> Helps if you Cc the people actually working on this stuff of course...
>
>Thank you for the forward, Peter, I have queued Jeremy's patch for
>testing and review.

fyi I had proposed the following a while back, which I think is more
complete than this patch:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/15/201

Ah, there's also this (unrelated) fix:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/15/203

>
>But Jeremy's list of email addresses is what you would expect from
>looking at MAINTAINERS, so how about the following patch?
>
>							Thanx, Paul
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>commit 58322063498c8f5a3cc88f95bee237a0ce81f70a
>Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>Date:   Tue Nov 7 14:10:03 2017 -0800
>
>    torture: Place all torture-test modules in one MAINTAINERS group
>
>    There is some confusion about where patches to kernel/torture.c
>    and kernel/locking/locktorture.c should be sent.  This commit
>    therefore updates MAINTAINERS appropriately.
>
>    Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
>diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>index 2d3d750b19c0..eab868adedc6 100644
>--- a/MAINTAINERS
>+++ b/MAINTAINERS
>@@ -8091,6 +8091,7 @@ F:	arch/*/include/asm/rwsem.h
> F:	include/linux/seqlock.h
> F:	lib/locking*.[ch]
> F:	kernel/locking/
>+X:	kernel/locking/locktorture.c
>
> LOGICAL DISK MANAGER SUPPORT (LDM, Windows 2000/XP/Vista Dynamic Disks)
> M:	"Richard Russon (FlatCap)" <ldm@flatcap.org>
>@@ -11318,15 +11319,6 @@ L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> S:	Orphan
> F:	drivers/net/wireless/ray*
>
>-RCUTORTURE MODULE
>-M:	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
>-M:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>-L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>-S:	Supported
>-T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
>-F:	Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
>-F:	kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
>-
> RCUTORTURE TEST FRAMEWORK
> M:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> M:	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
>@@ -13558,6 +13550,18 @@ L:	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
> S:	Maintained
> F:	drivers/platform/x86/topstar-laptop.c
>
>+TORTURE-TEST MODULES
>+M:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
>+M:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>+M:	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
>+L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>+S:	Supported
>+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
>+F:	Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
>+F:	kernel/torture.c
>+F:	kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
>+F:	kernel/locking/locktorture.c

Sure, if you think this is the best way to go, I have no problem.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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