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authorGravatar Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> 2024-03-06 19:21:47 -0800
committerGravatar Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> 2024-04-16 11:16:35 +0200
commit8b9b443fa860276822b25057cb3ff3b28734dec0 (patch)
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parentrcutorture: Remove extraneous rcu_torture_pipe_update_one() READ_ONCE() (diff)
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rcutorture: Fix rcu_torture_one_read() pipe_count overflow comment
The "pipe_count > RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN" check has a comment saying "Should not happen, but...". This is only true when testing an RCU whose grace periods are always long enough. This commit therefore fixes this comment. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi7rJ-eGq+xaxVfzFEgbL9tdf6Kc8Z89rCpfcQOKm74Tw@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 6b821a7037b0..0cb5452ecd94 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -2000,7 +2000,8 @@ static bool rcu_torture_one_read(struct torture_random_state *trsp, long myid)
preempt_disable();
pipe_count = READ_ONCE(p->rtort_pipe_count);
if (pipe_count > RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN) {
- /* Should not happen, but... */
+ // Should not happen in a correct RCU implementation,
+ // happens quite often for torture_type=busted.
pipe_count = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN;
}
completed = cur_ops->get_gp_seq();