On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:11:06AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> 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?

Good catch on both counts, fixed.

                                                        Thanx, Paul

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