From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: randy.dunlap@oracle.com, lenb@kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] acpi utmisc: use WARN_ON() instead of warn_on_slowpath()
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:14:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080702121424.a3451eae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486BCDDC.1000709@firstfloor.org>
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:50:04 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> >
> > utmisc.c needs to include asm-generic/bug.h for warn()/WARN() functions,
> > but it should use WARN_ON() instead of warn_on_slowpath() since
> > arches can provide their own implementation of WARN_ON(), which does
> > not have to use/provide/implement warn_on_slowpath() at all.
> > Just use the front door (WARN_ON).
> >
> > linux-next-20080702/drivers/acpi/utilities/utmisc.c:1027: error: implicit declaration of function 'warn_on_slowpath'
>
> On what architecture did you see that?
Doesn't matter.
x86, I expect. warn_on_slowpath() isn't implemented if CONFIG_BUG=n.
warn_on_slowpath() is an internal implementation detail of the generic
version of the WARN facility. No other code has any business using it.
> It might be be better to just provide it on all architectures supported
> by ACPI (x86, ia64). I suppose it was ia64?
Let's use the proper interfaces. WARN_ON().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-02 19:25 UTC|newest]
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2008-07-02 18:28 ` [PATCH -next] acpi utmisc: use WARN_ON() instead of warn_on_slowpath() Randy Dunlap
2008-07-02 18:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-02 19:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-07-02 19:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-02 19:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02 20:11 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-02 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02 20:51 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-02 21:02 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02 21:07 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-02 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-06 17:18 ` Len Brown
2008-07-06 18:13 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-06 18:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-07 6:19 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-07 7:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-08 15:44 ` Thomas Renninger
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