Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> box:/usr/src/25> ~/checkpatch.pl patches/slub-core.patch
> Checking patches/slub-core.patch:  signoffs = 30        
> Use WARN_ON & Recovery code rather than BUG() and BUG_ON()

The warning is bogus imho. How do you write recovery code for internal
broken code logic? 

-Andi


> 1588:+  VM_BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
> 1834:+  BUG_ON(flags & ~(GFP_DMA | GFP_LEVEL_MASK));
> 2538:+  BUG_ON(kmalloc_caches->size < sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node));
> 2544:+  BUG_ON(!page);
> 2546:+  BUG_ON(!n);
> 2736:+          BUG_ON(err);
> 2762:+  BUG_ON(flags & SLUB_UNIMPLEMENTED);
> 2777:+          BUG_ON(flags & (SLAB_RED_ZONE | SLAB_POISON |
> 2779:+          BUG_ON(ctor || dtor);
> 3054:+  BUG_ON(index < 0);
> 3118:+  BUG_ON(!page);
> 3120:+  BUG_ON(!s);
> 4062:+  BUG_ON(!name);
> 4083:+  BUG_ON(p > name + ID_STR_LENGTH - 1);
> 4188:+          BUG_ON(err);
>