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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] avoid clobbering registers with J_ASSERT macro
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:46:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070820154648.GI30019@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187623324.12049.4.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com>

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:18 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> 
> > > How's about we just remove that printk?  Do
> > > 
> > > #define J_ASSERT(e) BUG_ON(e)?

ITYM #define J_ASSERT(e) BUG_ON(!e)

> It did.  The original J_ASSERT predates BUG() entirely, and was added so
> that we got the file/line-no information.  But with the current BUG()
> macro, I can't see any reason for J_ASSERT still to try to gather that
> information itself.

Do you still want to keep J_ASSERT, or should all uses of it be replaced
with BUG_ON?

(to put it another way; if you were writing JBD now, would you add your
own J_ASSERT, or would you just use BUG_ON directly?)

-- 
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-20 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-17  5:54 [RFC PATCH 0/2] avoid clobbering registers with J_ASSERT macro Chris Snook
2007-08-17  6:02 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] jbd: " Chris Snook
2007-08-17  6:04 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] jbd2: " Chris Snook
2007-08-17 20:54 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] " Andrew Morton
2007-08-20 13:18   ` Chris Snook
2007-08-20 15:22     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2007-08-20 15:46       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-08-20 16:19         ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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