On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 01:24:25PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> The following series gets the radix tree test suite compiling again in
> the current linux/master, adds a unit test which exposes a race in the
> radix tree multi-order iteration code, and then fixes that race.
> 
> This race was initially hit on a v4.15 based kernel and results in a GP
> fault.  I've described the race in detail in patches 4 and 5.
> 
> The fix is simple and necessary, and I think it should be merged for
> v4.17.
> 
> This tree has gotten positive build confirmation from the 0-day bot,
> passes the updated radix tree test suite, xfstests, and the original
> test that was hitting the race with the v4.15 based kernel.
> 
> Ross Zwisler (5):
>   radix tree test suite: fix mapshift build target
>   radix tree test suite: fix compilation issue
>   radix tree test suite: add item_delete_rcu()
>   radix tree test suite: multi-order iteration race
>   radix tree: fix multi-order iteration race
> 
>  lib/radix-tree.c                      |  6 ++--
>  tools/include/linux/spinlock.h        |  3 +-
>  tools/testing/radix-tree/Makefile     |  6 ++--
>  tools/testing/radix-tree/multiorder.c | 63 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/testing/radix-tree/test.c       | 19 +++++++++++
>  tools/testing/radix-tree/test.h       |  3 ++
>  6 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.14.3
> 

Ping on this series.  Does anyone have any feedback?  Matthew?

I'd really like to get it into v4.17.

We can take it through the libnvdimm tree, if that's easiest.
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