From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
jeremy@goop.org, hpa@zytor.com, kaos@ocs.com.au,
xyzzy@speakeasy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG()
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:36:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070725173646.GI27237@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707250954400.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:56:12AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We don't just do the "ud2" instruction - we also do the file and line
> number information after it. Which means that __builtin_trap() is useless.
>
> So we might as well keep the loop, since both are two-byte instructions
> that tell gcc that it will never continue.
Actually, the worse problem is that gcc will happily merge these guys.
And that's a killer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-25 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 15:39 [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG() Al Viro
2007-07-24 16:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 17:14 ` Al Viro
2007-07-24 17:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 18:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 19:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 19:13 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 20:04 ` Al Viro
2007-07-24 21:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 2:31 ` Trent Piepho
2007-07-25 2:50 ` Keith Owens
2007-07-25 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 6:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 6:29 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 6:50 ` Heiko Carstens
2007-07-25 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 17:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 17:25 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 19:35 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 19:28 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 17:19 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 17:26 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:35 ` David Howells
2007-07-25 17:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 20:29 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-25 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 22:01 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 17:36 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-07-25 17:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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