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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: add sanity check in partition_sched_domains()
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:06:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49101E96.2010609@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081104092848.GM23790@elte.hu>

> a small detail, i changed this:
> 
>> +		BUG_ON(dattr_new);
> 
> to WARN_ON_ONCE().
> 
> If there's a rare setup-time memory leak we dont want to crash the box 
> via a BUG_ON(), as that only results in unhappy users. We want a 
> WARN_ON_ONCE() so that we get nice bugreports and kerneloops.org 
> coverage as well instead.
> 
> We use BUG_ON() in new code only in the rarest of circumstances: if we 
> absolutely want to bring down the box right there - because there's a 
> serious risk of data corruption, security breach, etc.
> 

I see the point, thx for the explanation. :)


      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-04 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-04  8:20 [PATCH] sched: add sanity check in partition_sched_domains() Li Zefan
2008-11-04  9:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-04 10:06   ` Li Zefan [this message]

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