From: hpa@zytor•com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arch: configuration, deleting 'CONFIG_BUG' since always need it.
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:55:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A4C564.4040301@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130528081910.GA29557@gmail.com>
On 05/28/2013 01:19 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> So I think the same principle applies to it as to any other debugging
> code: it's fine to be able to turn debugging off. It's a performance
> versus kernel robustness/determinism trade-off.
>
I suspect, rather, that BUG() should turn into a trap (or jump to a
death routine) under any circumstances. The one thing that can be
omitted for small configurations are the annotations, which only serve
to output a more human-readable error message.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-28 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-23 7:57 [PATCH] arch: configuration, deleting 'CONFIG_BUG' since always need it Chen Gang
2013-05-23 8:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-05-23 8:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 9:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 9:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-05-23 9:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 10:04 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 10:41 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-23 10:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 11:19 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-23 11:24 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 12:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 12:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 14:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-05-24 2:13 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-24 4:17 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-26 4:43 ` [PATCH v2] arch: configuration issue, random return value when disable 'CONFIG_BUG' Chen Gang
2013-05-28 8:19 ` [PATCH] arch: configuration, deleting 'CONFIG_BUG' since always need it Ingo Molnar
2013-05-28 10:25 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-28 14:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-28 14:55 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-05-28 15:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-28 16:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-28 17:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 10:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-23 10:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 10:05 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-24 5:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
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