From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: [patch] change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..."
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:43:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061221124327.GA17190@elte.hu> (raw)
Subject: [patch] change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..."
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARN_ON() ever triggering is a kernel bug. Do not try to paper over this
fact by suggesting to the user that this is 'only' a warning, as the
following recent commit does:
commit 30e25b71e725b150585e17888b130e3324f8cf7c
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Date: Fri Dec 8 02:36:24 2006 -0800
[PATCH] Fix generic WARN_ON message
A warning is a warning, not a BUG.
( it might make sense to rename BUG() to CRASH() and BUG_ON() to
CRASH_ON(), but that does not change the fact that WARN_ON()
signals a kernel bug. )
i and others objected to this change during lkml review:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116115160710533&w=2
still the change slipped upstream - grumble :)
Also, use the standard "BUG: " format to make it easier to grep logs and
to make it easier to google for kernel bugs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
include/asm-generic/bug.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux/include/asm-generic/bug.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-generic/bug.h
+++ linux/include/asm-generic/bug.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct bug_entry {
#define WARN_ON(condition) ({ \
typeof(condition) __ret_warn_on = (condition); \
if (unlikely(__ret_warn_on)) { \
- printk("WARNING at %s:%d %s()\n", __FILE__, \
+ printk("BUG: at %s:%d %s()\n", __FILE__, \
__LINE__, __FUNCTION__); \
dump_stack(); \
} \
next reply other threads:[~2006-12-21 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-21 12:43 Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-12-21 13:00 ` [patch] change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..." Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-21 18:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-12-21 23:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-22 20:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-23 2:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-12-23 11:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-23 12:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-12-24 14:16 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-28 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
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