locking/selftest: Avoid false BUG report
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 4 Oct 2017 08:50:25 +0000 (10:50 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:04:29 +0000 (10:04 +0200)
The work-around for the expected failure is providing another failure :/

Only when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y do we increment unexpected_testcase_failures,
so only then do we need to decrement, otherwise we'll end up with a negative
number and that will again trigger a BUG (printout, not crash).

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: d82fed752942 ("locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
lib/locking-selftest.c

index cd0b5c964bd041853a74116780c4446c4dc355f9..2b827b8a1d8c9945dfa04dc94bfda82216e045f8 100644 (file)
@@ -2031,11 +2031,13 @@ void locking_selftest(void)
        print_testname("mixed read-lock/lock-write ABBA");
        pr_cont("             |");
        dotest(rlock_ABBA1, FAILURE, LOCKTYPE_RWLOCK);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
        /*
         * Lockdep does indeed fail here, but there's nothing we can do about
         * that now.  Don't kill lockdep for it.
         */
        unexpected_testcase_failures--;
+#endif
 
        pr_cont("             |");
        dotest(rwsem_ABBA1, FAILURE, LOCKTYPE_RWSEM);