On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 06:13:23PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:54:55 -0800 > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting > > due to failure being unlikely and due to the mild consequences of the > > failure, namely a confusing rcutorture console message. > > > > I've seen patches backported for less. :-/ > > Really, any statement that says something may go awry with the code, > will be an argument to backport it. You aren't kidding! Rumor has it that someone tried backporting the RCU flavor-consolidation work, for but one example. Though I cannot help but salute the level of insanity represented by that attempt. ;-) Thanx, Paul
