From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" <dedekind@oktetlabs.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] files: change fd_install assertion
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:30:49 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050624130049.GG4804@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42BBF6D5.2030109@oktetlabs.ru>
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:04:37PM +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> >- if (unlikely(fdt->fd[fd] != NULL))
> >- BUG();
> >+ BUG_ON(fdt->fd[fd] != NULL);
> > rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], file);
> > spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
> > }
> >
> Why is this better ?
Because that way the compare and branch can be ifdefed out when CONFIG_BUG is
not set. Not to mention BUG_ON() looks more like an assertion.
Thanks
Dipankar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-24 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-24 10:50 [PATCH 0/4] files: various updates Dipankar Sarma
2005-06-24 10:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] files: fix dupfd by fdt reload Dipankar Sarma
2005-06-24 10:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] files: fix expand_files return code Dipankar Sarma
2005-06-24 10:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] files: change fd_install assertion Dipankar Sarma
2005-06-24 10:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] files: doc update Dipankar Sarma
2005-06-24 12:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] files: change fd_install assertion Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-06-24 13:00 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2005-06-24 13:55 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-06-24 14:09 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-06-24 14:20 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
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