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From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] knfsd: remove unnecessary BUG_ON's
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:40:58 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070914164058.GK21965@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070912234317.GF13792@fieldses.org>

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 07:43:17PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Trivial patch, but--any objection to removing these assertions?
> 
> We set svsk->sk_pool = pool just 30-some lines above, and there's no
> obvious reason this should have changed, or any other particular reason
> to assert this here.

Yeah, you'd think that.  However we saw these BUG_ON()s tripped
when attempting to port the 2.6.18-based NFS/RDMA patches to a
2.6.19-like kernel.  All it takes is for some transport code to get
confused about the proper way to clear SK_BUSY, and *blam*.  So I
think they're useful.

Greg.
-- 
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
Apparently, I'm Bedevere.  Which MPHG character are you?
I don't speak for SGI.

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-12 23:43 [PATCH] knfsd: remove unnecessary BUG_ON's J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-14 16:40 ` Greg Banks [this message]
2007-09-14 16:50   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-14 16:58     ` Greg Banks

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