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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.39 list_head debugging
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 23:12:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D9699DE.F7528065@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020929015852.K13817@bitchcake.off.net

Zach Brown wrote:
> 
> ...
> +       BUG_ON(list == NULL);
> +       BUG_ON(list->next == NULL);
> +       BUG_ON(list->prev == NULL);
> +       BUG_ON(list->next->prev != list);
> +       BUG_ON(list->prev->next != list);
> +       BUG_ON((list->next == list) && (list->prev != list));
> +       BUG_ON((list->prev == list) && (list->next != list));
> +


Could we make these just do a printk+dump_stack and continue
on?  A BUG is a bit severe.

If you do this, I suggest you add the text "warning" to
the printk.  People tend to think that the dump_stack output
is an actual oops, and they get all worried.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-29  6:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-29  5:58 [PATCH] 2.5.39 list_head debugging Zach Brown
2002-09-29  6:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-29  6:24   ` Zach Brown
2002-09-29  8:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-29 14:27   ` Zach Brown
2002-09-29 14:28     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-29 14:30   ` Zach Brown
2002-09-29 17:22 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-29 20:22   ` Zach Brown

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