Re: [patch] mm, mempolicy: make mempolicies robust against errors

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On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> So, I strongly suggest to remove CONFIG_BUG=n. It is neglected very long time
> and
> much plenty code assume BUG() is not no-op. I don't think we can fix all
> place.
> 
> Just one instruction don't hurt code size nor performance.
> 

It's a different topic, the proposal here is whether an error in 
mempolicies (either the code or flipped bit) should crash the kernel or 
not since it's a condition that can easily be recovered from and leave 
BUG() to errors that actually are fatal.  Crashing the kernel offers no 
advantage.

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