[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Remove assert()

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:02:44PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 2017-11-29 11:30 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>:
> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:01:02AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> 2017-11-29 10:42 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>:
> >> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:17:35AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> >> 2017-11-28 23:52 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>:
> >> >> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 09:23:18PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> Buildman test passed.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Masahiro Yamada (5):
> >> >> >>   Move CONFIG_PANIC_HANG to Kconfig
> >> >> >>   ARM: openrd: set CONFIG_LOGLEVEL to 2
> >> >> >>   Enable CONFIG_PANIC_HANG for boards without do_reset()
> >> >> >>   treewide: convert assert() to BUG_ON()
> >> >> >>   Remove assert()
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Have you done a size check on this series?  If not, I'll fire one up,
> >> >> > thanks!
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I think I did it correctly.
> >> >>
> >> >> At least, I needed the following patch for openrd boards:
> >> >> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/842106/
> >> >>
> >> >> Looks like the NAND core pull-request needs it, too.
> >> >
> >> > So, in my testing (which is gcc-6 for everything thanks to Debian/9):
> >> > 06: Remove assert()
> >> >        arm:  +   clearfog peach-pi snow smdk5250 smdk5420 turris_omnia spring omap3_evm peach-pit
> >> > -(am335x_hs_evm) arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd: region `.sram' overflowed by 760 bytes
> >> > +(clearfog,turris_omnia) arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd: SPL image too big
> >> > +(am335x_hs_evm) arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd: region `.sram' overflowed by 1080 bytes
> >> > +(snow,smdk5250,peach-pi,smdk5420,spring,peach-pit) arch/arm/mach-exynos/built-in.o: In function `clock_calc_best_scalar':
> >> > +(snow,smdk5250,peach-pi,smdk5420,spring,peach-pit) build/../arch/arm/mach-exynos/clock.c:1408: undefined reference to `panic'
> >> > +(omap3_evm) arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd: region `.sram' overflowed by 28 bytes
> >> >
> >> > And then a lot of platforms grow in size.  Taking a harder peek, BUG_ON
> >> > is always set.  However, assert() is only set when DEBUG is set.  Now, I
> >> > can certainly see an argument along the lines of that being fairly
> >> > unexpected, and I don't know that I would disagree.
> >> >
> >> > After a very quick look over what git grep -l says, perhaps we want to
> >> > introduce a new (default off) option to preserve the current behavior of
> >> > assert() in BUG_ON, as it looks like almost only kernel imported code is
> >> > using BUG_ON.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Do you have an idea for the option name?
> >
> > ENABLE_BUG_ON_CHECKS ?
> 
> Do you mean CONFIG option?
> i.e.  CONFIG_ENABLE_BUG_ON_CHECKS
> so we can turn it on/off globally?

Yes, a CONFIG option to turn it on/off.

-- 
Tom
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