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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (update) more helpful WARN_ON and BUG_ON messages
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:02:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161363746.5230.55.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4538FF32.8050604@sandeen.net>

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 11:54 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> > After a few bugs I encountered in FC6 in buffer.c, with output like:
> >
> > Kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c: 2791
> >
> > where buffer.c contains:
> >
> > ...
> >         BUG_ON(!buffer_locked(bh));
> >         BUG_ON(!buffer_mapped(bh));
> >         BUG_ON(!bh->b_end_io);
> > ...
> >
> > around line 2790, it's awfully tedious to go get the exact failing kernel tree
> > just to see -which- BUG_ON was encountered.
> >
> > Printing out the failing condition as a string would make this more helpful IMHO.
> >
> > This is mostly just compile-tested... comments?
> Whoops, missed WARN_ON_ONCE... thanks Peter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

I like this, as you pointed out, its not always obvious which condition
is the offending one, this makes it more clear.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-20 16:23 [PATCH] more helpful WARN_ON and BUG_ON messages Eric Sandeen
2006-10-20 16:54 ` [PATCH] (update) " Eric Sandeen
2006-10-20 17:02   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2006-10-20 19:30   ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-20 21:16 ` [PATCH] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-23  3:18   ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-20 21:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-20 21:56   ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-20 22:07     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-21  2:41       ` Dave Jones

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