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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:20:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520152026.GB542@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805200752580.32253@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:54:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > I think Arjan meant like
 > 
 > 	WARN(next->prev != prev,
 > 		"list_add corruption. next->prev should be "
 > 		"prev (%p), but was %p. (next=%p).\n",
 > 		prev, next->prev, next);
 > 
 > without any "if()" statement at all.

Nice. I like that.


diff --git a/lib/list_debug.c b/lib/list_debug.c
index 4350ba9..311ffab 100644
--- a/lib/list_debug.c
+++ b/lib/list_debug.c
@@ -20,18 +20,14 @@ void __list_add(struct list_head *new,
 			      struct list_head *prev,
 			      struct list_head *next)
 {
-	if (unlikely(next->prev != prev)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "list_add corruption. next->prev should be "
-			"prev (%p), but was %p. (next=%p).\n",
-			prev, next->prev, next);
-		BUG();
-	}
-	if (unlikely(prev->next != next)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "list_add corruption. prev->next should be "
-			"next (%p), but was %p. (prev=%p).\n",
-			next, prev->next, prev);
-		BUG();
-	}
+	WARN(next->prev != prev,
+		"list_add corruption. next->prev should be "
+		"prev (%p), but was %p. (next=%p).\n",
+		prev, next->prev, next);
+	WARN(prev->next != next,
+		"list_add corruption. prev->next should be "
+		"next (%p), but was %p. (prev=%p).\n",
+		next, prev->next, prev);
 	next->prev = new;
 	new->next = next;
 	new->prev = prev;
@@ -61,16 +57,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(list_add);
  */
 void list_del(struct list_head *entry)
 {
-	if (unlikely(entry->prev->next != entry)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "list_del corruption. prev->next should be %p, "
-				"but was %p\n", entry, entry->prev->next);
-		BUG();
-	}
-	if (unlikely(entry->next->prev != entry)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "list_del corruption. next->prev should be %p, "
-				"but was %p\n", entry, entry->next->prev);
-		BUG();
-	}
+	WARN(entry->prev->next != entry,
+		"list_del corruption. prev->next should be %p, "
+		"but was %p\n", entry, entry->prev->next);
+	WARN(entry->next->prev != entry,
+		"list_del corruption. next->prev should be %p, "
+		"but was %p\n", entry, entry->next->prev);
 	__list_del(entry->prev, entry->next);
 	entry->next = LIST_POISON1;
 	entry->prev = LIST_POISON2;

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02 18:27 [PATCH] Extend list debugging to cover hlists Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-01 20:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-02 18:49   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-02 19:05     ` Dave Jones
2008-05-20  3:24     ` [PATCH] Make Dave Jones
2008-05-20 14:14       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-20 14:27         ` Dave Jones
2008-05-20 14:54           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-20 15:20             ` Dave Jones [this message]
2008-05-20 16:15             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-20 15:00           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-05-20 15:12             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-20 15:22               ` Dave Jones
2008-05-20 21:52                 ` [PATCH] Make (LIST_DEBUG WARN not BUG) Alexey Dobriyan
2008-05-02 23:14 ` [PATCH] Extend list debugging to cover hlists Andrew Morton
2008-05-02 23:17   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-02 23:39     ` Andrew Morton

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