Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] rcu: Use _full() API to debug synchronize_rcu()

[Joel Fernandes]

On 3/3/2025 1:55 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> I tried the following command and it shows the patch in question in the first
>> line of output. Basically the question that the command asks is "What is in
>> Paul's dev branch that is not in RCU tree's -next branch".  This question is
>> asked for the obvious raisins.
>> So I am obviously missing something in the command. Thoughts?
>>
>> (rcugit is the RCU tree, and paul/dev is Paul's dev branch)
>>
>> git cherry --abbrev -v rcugit/next paul/dev | grep "^+" | cut -d' ' -f2,3-
> I must defer to others on this one.  I must confess that I have not yet
> found a good use case for "git cherry".

In this case git cherry was seemingly correct because it detected a difference
between the same patch in your dev branch versus the next branch [1]. It seems
the next branch has the fix with the reordering of the statements. So it thought
that your branch had a patch that wasn't there in next, where in reality the one
in next was "newer".

[1]
https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux.git/commit/?h=misc.2025.03.02a&id=153fc45000e0058435ec0609258fb16e7ea257d2

thanks,

 - Joel