Re: [PATCH v3 11/17] rv: Retry when da monitor detects race conditions

[Gabriele Monaco]

On Wed, 2025-07-16 at 10:45 +0200, Nam Cao wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 10:38:11AM +0200, Gabriele Monaco wrote:
> > Yes you can, but I wouldn't do so silently.
> 
> Why not? The absolute worst that we get, is the rare case where a bug
> appears at the exact same time. In that case, we would get a false
> negative.
> 
> And I think that is really really rare.

Well, we wouldn't even know how rare it is because we don't track it!

It may be a harmless note but might also be a design flaw in the
monitor, so it should be possible to understand when it happens.

> Yes, if you really want to emit some sort of warning here, it should
> be
> absolutely clear that the monitor itself is having a hiccup, not the
> monitored kernel.

Yeah totally, not saying that other errors reported in the wild are
going to be necessarily the kernel's fault though ;)
But let's keep these cases separate going forward nonetheless.

Thanks,
Gabriele