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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Lianwei Wang <lianwei.wang@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	oleg@redhat.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu/hotplug: handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:22:59 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1604251018090.3941@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFUiJg61i16JdC4LiQOXmD9Rrg8VDf7BEWs124dFTkbd4Rg-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Lianwei Wang wrote:
> Any way is Ok for debugging purpose. But think the kernel run on a
> customer machine, such as PC, Mobile phone or other devices. How we
> let the customer debug it but not recover it smartly?

There is nothing smart here. Restoring the count is a bandaid and has nothing
to do with recovery. If that WARN_ON triggers then other stuff is going to be
more fundamentally wrong so restoring the count is the least of our worries.

> Anyway, from a product perspective way, if we don't want to restore
> the unbalanced counter to 0, then maybe a BUG_ON is more reasonable
> than WARN_ON.

Not at all. BUG_ON is the last resort if we have no other way to handle an
issue.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-25  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21  4:56 [PATCH] cpu/hotplug: handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable Lianwei Wang
2016-04-21 10:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-22 16:32   ` Lianwei Wang
2016-04-22 16:37     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-04-22 21:58       ` Lianwei Wang
2016-04-25  8:22         ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2016-04-26  6:58           ` Lianwei Wang
2016-04-27 10:17             ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-04-28  6:10               ` Lianwei Wang
2016-04-28  6:15                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-04-28 17:25                   ` Lianwei Wang
2016-04-29  0:44                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-04-29 21:47                       ` Lianwei Wang
2016-05-02  8:11                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-05-04  7:23                           ` Lianwei Wang
2016-05-05 12:13                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-05-06  7:06                               ` Lianwei Wang
2016-05-06  7:18                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-05-12  8:06                                   ` Lianwei Wang
2016-06-07  5:38                                     ` Lianwei Wang

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