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From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Cc: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] wl12xx: reset link Tx queues when freeing it
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:39:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330504788.18637.90.camel@cumari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqcyavn5.fsf@purkki.adurom.net>

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 10:31 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: 
> Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> writes:
> 
> >> @@ -973,8 +974,14 @@ void wl12xx_tx_reset(struct wl1271 *wl, bool reset_tx_queues)
> >>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
> >>  	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info;
> >>  
> >> -	for (i = 0; i < NUM_TX_QUEUES; i++)
> >> -		wl->tx_queue_count[i] = 0;
> >> +	/* only reset the queues if something bad happened */
> >> +	if (WARN_ON(wl1271_tx_total_queue_count(wl) != 0)) {
> >
> > Let's make all these WARN_ONs as WARN_ON_ONCE as it is recommended
> > nowadays.  This will make Kalle Valo happier. :)
> 
> Hehe. Actually the dislike against WARN_ON() was started by John, I
> again started the war to killing BUG_ON() :)

Right, John's email was where I got the "recommended" from. ;)


> But nevertheless, this changes makes also me happy. I have seen cases
> where the whole system reboots because of WARN_ON() spam, so
> WARN_ON_ONCE() is much better in in cases where's a possibility that it
> will get printed a lot. Of course printk_ratelimit() is another option,
> but for some reason it isn't that popular.

Yeah, I totally agree.  Especially when we have a loop, WARN_ON_ONCE
should be sufficient, in my opinion.

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27 22:41 [PATCH 1/7] wl12xx: set the ELP entry delay to the FW dyn-ps timeout Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 2/7] wl12xx: change bits in the link_map under spin lock Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 3/7] wl12xx: reset link Tx queues when freeing it Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-28  9:51   ` Luciano Coelho
2012-02-28 10:09     ` Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-29  8:31     ` Kalle Valo
2012-02-29  8:39       ` Luciano Coelho [this message]
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 4/7] wl12xx: avoid starving the system hlid Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 5/7] wl12xx: flush all Tx queues on tx_flush timeout Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 6/7] wl12xx: flush Tx during suspend and 802.11h chan switch Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 7/7] wl12xx: increase dynamic PS timeout to 200ms Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-28 12:05 ` [PATCH 1/7] wl12xx: set the ELP entry delay to the FW dyn-ps timeout Luciano Coelho

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