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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Upinder Malhi (umalhi)"
	<umalhi-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "<linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>"
	<linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: IB/usnic: Add Cisco VIC low-level hardware driver
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:29:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131212092927.GU5443@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7E785E0E-85C8-498D-9269-46C95110BF53-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 03:03:15AM +0000, Upinder Malhi (umalhi) wrote:
> Why not?  
> 
> We can switch to WARN_ON.  The kernel provides this macro -
> assert_spin_locked - which does asserts via BUG_ON that
> spin_is_locked, which makes me think that using BUG_ON in conjunction
> with spin_is_locked is legal.  We should use this macro instead of
> manually asserting, unless that it is not legal, in which case WARN_ON
> will do.

It's better to not halt the kernel.  That way you can do some debugging.

But the main thing is the scheduling with a spin lock held.  The other
I don't care about.

regards,
dan carpenter

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-12  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11 22:40 IB/usnic: Add Cisco VIC low-level hardware driver Dan Carpenter
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2013-12-12  3:03   ` Upinder Malhi (umalhi)
     [not found]     ` <7E785E0E-85C8-498D-9269-46C95110BF53-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-12  9:29       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
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2013-12-11 22:43 Dan Carpenter
2013-12-11 22:39 Dan Carpenter
2013-12-11 22:38 Dan Carpenter
     [not found] ` <20131211223834.GA3955-mgFCXtclrQlZLf2FXnZxJA@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-12  1:59   ` Upinder Malhi (umalhi)
     [not found]     ` <BC9EAC3B-33A6-482B-9CF4-DF1E1353AB3B-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-12  9:26       ` Dan Carpenter

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