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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] Add assertion checking macros
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:36:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4874.1318451776@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E95D1B7.4050603@gmail.com>

Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, but why not have a single something-like-"ASSERT" doing the same as
> in userspace:

Because I want to print the values that were checked.  Your suggestion merely
turns the unevaluated expression into a string and prints that.  The values
are very useful to know in debugging the problem.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-12 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-12 16:47 [PATCH 1/7] Add assertion support with annotated oopsing David Howells
2011-10-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 2/7] Add assertion checking macros David Howells
2011-10-12 16:47   ` David Howells
2011-10-12 17:43   ` Jiri Slaby
2011-10-12 20:36   ` David Howells [this message]
2011-10-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 3/7] Make shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() use the core assertion code David Howells
2011-10-12 16:47   ` David Howells
2011-10-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 4/7] FS-Cache: Use new core assertion macros David Howells
2011-10-12 16:47   ` David Howells
2011-10-12 16:47 ` [PATCH 5/7] CacheFiles: " David Howells
2011-10-12 16:47   ` David Howells
2011-10-12 16:48 ` [PATCH 6/7] AFS: " David Howells
2011-10-12 16:48   ` David Howells
2011-10-12 16:48 ` [PATCH 7/7] RxRPC: " David Howells
2011-10-12 16:48   ` David Howells
2011-10-12 16:57 ` [PATCH 1/7] Add assertion support with annotated oopsing Ingo Molnar
2011-10-12 16:57   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-10-12 17:23 ` David Howells
2011-10-12 17:23   ` David Howells

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