McKenney: Stupid RCU Tricks: rcutorture Catches an RCU Bug
McKenney: Stupid RCU Tricks: rcutorture Catches an RCU Bug
Posted Dec 11, 2014 19:45 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: McKenney: Stupid RCU Tricks: rcutorture Catches an RCU Bug by cesarb
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Yeah, the 'c' and 'v' keys were switched, IIRC. Which is why it didn't affect some people, but it did for others. Personally, I just cause problems[1] for anyone at my computer who can't touch type :D .
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Posted Dec 26, 2014 15:13 UTC (Fri)
by Baylink (guest, #755)
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(* That is, when I read it, the writer said "when I was an IBM FE...")
McKenney: Stupid RCU Tricks: rcutorture Catches an RCU Bug
Specifically, that story is told as being first-person from an IBM field engineer*; the issue was that *keys in the user's password* had had their keytops switched while the terminal was being cleaned, and when the user was sitting, he touchtyped the password.