On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > So instead of the BUG_ON() we could emit a WARN_ONCE() perhaps, plus not > do any spinning and just block - resulting in an uninterruptible task > (that the user will probably notice) and a scary message in the syslog? > [all in the slowpath] Sure. You could put it in the adaptive function thing, with something like if (WARN_ONCE(waiter == owner)) return 1; which should fall back on the old behavior and do the one-time warning. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
