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From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 09:13:00 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinKbsV5mMd1PwqhWgjdABBf5asO9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin1M-TAqF8S1MznXFgp5pE-CgZX-Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hi...

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 19:33, sri <bskmohan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> So the BUG_ON means that it is known prior that a could raise in this
> codelines.


IMO, "Known" in a sense that the developer already anticipate such
situation.... likely, maybe such thing already happen in the past,
thus to ease further bug fixing, BUG_ON is placed there...

> Correct me if am wrong. In that case, there would a patch to fix this,
> guessing.

Hm, maybe....but personally I am not sure whether it's error by design
or a runtime error (a corner case that is not caught by the developer)
-- 
regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com

      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-27  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-25  9:32 kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue sri
2011-05-25 17:45 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-26 12:33   ` sri
2011-05-27  2:13     ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]

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