From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <51A4C564.4040301@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:55:32 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <519DCBEF.3090208@asianux.com> <20130523090534.GJ18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <201305231139.38233.arnd@arndb.de> <20130523100409.GK18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130528081910.GA29557@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130528081910.GA29557@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: configuration, deleting 'CONFIG_BUG' since always need it. To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Arnd Bergmann , Geert Uytterhoeven , Chen Gang , H?vard Skinnemoen , Hans-Christian Egtvedt , Mike Frysinger , Yoshinori Sato , Richard Kuo , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "paulus@samba.org" , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , linux390@de.ibm.com, Paul Mundt , Jeff Dike , Richard Weinberger , Thomas Gleixner , "mingo@redhat.com" , the arch/x86 maintainers , "Eric W. Biederman" , Serge Hallyn , Paul McKenney , Frederic Weisbecker , David Miller , Andrew Morton , Akinobu Mita , Catalin Marinas , Michel Lespinasse , Will Deacon , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org" , linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, Parisc List , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Linux-sh list , uml-devel , uml-user , Linux-Arch , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On 05/28/2013 01:19 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > So I think the same principle applies to it as to any other debugging > code: it's fine to be able to turn debugging off. It's a performance > versus kernel robustness/determinism trade-off. > I suspect, rather, that BUG() should turn into a trap (or jump to a death routine) under any circumstances. The one thing that can be omitted for small configurations are the annotations, which only serve to output a more human-readable error message. -hpa