Re: [RFC] asm-generic: default BUG_ON(x) to "if(x) BUG()"

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Monday 23 November 2015 16:37:50 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 05:33:59PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > I think you could do better by simply calling panic("BUG!") instead as
> > BUG() does. It will avoid the printk() call and pushing the file/line
> > number onto the stack. It will also probably not inflate the rodata this
> > way.
> 
> Does that not depend on the architectures BUG() implementation?  If an
> architecture implements it as a signalling illegal instruction and a
> lookup table, changing it to be a panic() would probably be more code.

Correct, overall, we are down to a 1.40% size reduction compared to
1.70% without my patch and 1.49% with my version:

section     CONFIG_BUG=y    CONFIG_BUG=n    CONFIG_BUG=n+patch    panic("BUG!")

 .text            8320248   |     8180944   |     8207688	|  8221848
 .rodata          3633720   |     3567144   |     3570648	|  3567344
 __bug_table        32508   |         ---   |         ---	|      ---
 __modver             692   |        1584   |        2176	|     1384
 .init.text        558132   |      548300   |      550088	|   550592
 .exit.text         12380   |       12256   |       12380	|    12448
 .data            1016672   |     1016064   |     1016128	|  1016064
 Total           14622556   |    14374510   |    14407326	| 14417898

	Arnd