Paul, On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 15:38 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > The CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY Kconfig parameter doesn't appear to be very > effective at finding race conditions, so this commit removes it. > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> > Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> > --- > kernel/rcu/tree.c | 5 ----- > kernel/rcu/update.c | 3 ---
The commit explanation implies that this patch would also remove the entry for PROVE_RCU_DELAY in lib/Kconfig.debug. Is there any reason to keep it after this patch? > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE01 | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE02 | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE02-T | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE03 | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE04 | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE05 | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE06 | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE07 | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE08 | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE08-T | 1 - > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/TREE09 | 1 - > 13 files changed, 19 deletions(-) This doesn't touch a few other references in tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/. I have no idea how these tests work, so I assume these references are still needed. Is that correct? Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
