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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

  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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