From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: configuration, deleting 'CONFIG_BUG' since always need it.
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 19:19:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519DFB42.7010509@asianux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201305231259.43750.arnd@arndb.de>
On 05/23/2013 06:59 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> You don't just want to avoid the code for printing the bug message and
> the invalid instruction, we also want the compiler to not emit the
> function call or check the enum for unexpected values. The meaning of
> BUG() is really that person writing that statement was sure it cannot
> happen unless there is a bug in the kernel, which has likely already
> corrupted data. Printing a diagnostic at this point is nice if someone
> is there to look at it, but letting the kernel do further actions that
> may be undefined is not going to make things worse.
So I think neither unreachable() nor panic() are suitable for this
condition.
I guess 'CONFIG_BUG' is not belong to common features, now (and in the
future), so it is not suitable still exist in "asm-generic/bug.h", need
remove it firstly.
And then let the specific architectures to implement their own BUG(), if
they want some special features.
SO most of arches can skip this issue.
Thanks.
--
Chen Gang
Asianux Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-23 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-23 7:57 [PATCH] arch: configuration, deleting 'CONFIG_BUG' since always need it Chen Gang
2013-05-23 8:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-05-23 8:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 9:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 9:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-05-23 9:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 10:04 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 10:41 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-23 10:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 11:19 ` Chen Gang [this message]
2013-05-23 11:24 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 12:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 12:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 14:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-05-24 2:13 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-24 4:17 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-26 4:43 ` [PATCH v2] arch: configuration issue, random return value when disable 'CONFIG_BUG' Chen Gang
2013-05-28 8:19 ` [PATCH] arch: configuration, deleting 'CONFIG_BUG' since always need it Ingo Molnar
2013-05-28 10:25 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-28 14:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-28 14:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-28 15:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-28 16:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-28 17:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-23 10:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-23 10:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-23 10:05 ` Chen Gang
2013-05-24 5:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
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