From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
nagar@watson.ibm.com, Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:21:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060930202117.GO29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609301237460.3952@g5.osdl.org>
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:54:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We need Al Viro here to put this kind of code into perspective. I _think_
> he would have some choice words for code that is meant to "help"
> debugging, and is this horrible.
Oh, so _that_ is what it is supposed to do? I've seen it when it went
in, tried to read, barfed and chalked it up to KDB or itanic braindamage
(both have turds of that genre). Didn't realize that lockdep used it too...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-30 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-30 19:20 BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18) Eric Rannaud
2006-09-30 19:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-09-30 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 20:57 ` Eric Rannaud
2006-09-30 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 20:21 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-09-30 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 20:30 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-30 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 20:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-30 21:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 21:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-30 21:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-30 22:09 ` BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18) II Andi Kleen
2006-09-30 22:19 ` Eric Rannaud
2006-09-30 22:24 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-30 22:54 ` BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18) Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 9:21 ` Jan Beulich
2006-10-04 15:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 21:43 ` Eric Rannaud
2006-09-30 22:03 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-30 21:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 22:02 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-30 22:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-30 22:23 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-30 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 22:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 23:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-01 0:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-01 0:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-01 9:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-04 9:25 ` Jan Beulich
2006-10-04 10:52 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-04 11:58 ` Jan Beulich
2006-10-04 12:03 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-04 12:10 ` Jan Beulich
2006-09-30 20:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 9:15 ` Jan Beulich
2006-09-30 20:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-30 20:52 ` Eric Rannaud
2006-09-30 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-30 22:00 ` Eric Rannaud
2006-09-30 22:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-01 0:59 ` Eric Rannaud
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