From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:51:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 00/10] arm64: Use BRK instruction for generic BUG traps In-Reply-To: <1434036566-9848-1-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com> References: <1434036566-9848-1-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com> Message-ID: <20150616145105.GG30522@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Dave, On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 04:29:14PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote: > Currently, the minimal default BUG() implementation from asm-generic is > used for arm64. > > This series uses the BRK software breakpoint instruction to generate a > trap instead, similarly to most other arches, with the generic BUG code > generating the dmesg boilerplate. This eliminates a fair amount of > inlined code at BUG() and WARN() sites. I think patches 3 and 8 are a bit OTT and don't really bring us much. However, for the rest of the series (modulo my minor comments): Reviewed-by: Will Deacon Cheers, Will