From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] kref debugging config option
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:08:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060425050820.GA23373@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060425045337.GB5698@miraclelinux.com>
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:53:37PM +0800, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:38:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch converts all WARN_ON() in kref code to BUG_ON().
> >
> > Why? This change will irritate testers and will decrease their ability to
> > capture (and hence report) diagnostic info.
>
> I have no grudge against this BUG_ON().
>
> But BUG_ON() is more prominent than WARN_ON().
Sure, it crashes your kernel, hopefully you notice that better :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-25 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-24 8:33 [patch 0/4] kref debugging Akinobu Mita
2006-04-24 8:33 ` [patch 1/4] kref: warn kref_put() with unreferenced kref Akinobu Mita
2006-04-25 3:51 ` Greg KH
2006-04-25 4:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-04-25 5:11 ` Greg KH
2006-04-25 4:34 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-04-25 5:09 ` Greg KH
2006-04-25 6:27 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-04-27 11:45 ` Rogier Wolff
2006-04-24 8:33 ` [patch 2/4] kref debugging config option Akinobu Mita
2006-04-24 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-25 4:53 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-04-25 5:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-04-25 3:52 ` Greg KH
2006-04-24 8:33 ` [patch 3/4] dynamic configurable kref debugging Akinobu Mita
2006-04-25 3:55 ` Greg KH
2006-04-24 8:33 ` [patch 4/4] change slab poison pattern Akinobu Mita
2006-04-24 9:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-24 10:23 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-04-24 15:33 ` Matt Mackall
2006-04-25 3:49 ` [patch 0/4] kref debugging Greg KH
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