* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:49:40 +0200 > > > Btw., WARN_ON trapping on PowerPC is clearly a PowerPC bug - there's a good > > reason we have WARN_ON versus BUG_ON - it should be fixed. > > I disagree, an implementation should be allowed to use the most > efficient implementation possible for both interfaces. It trades robustness for slightly better space/code efficiency. Such a trap based mechanism exists on x86 as well and we use it for BUG_ON(). We intentionally dont use it to generate warnings and dont override __WARN(), because it would blow up way too often when a warning triggers in some sensitive codepath that cannot take a trap. Anyway, the warning obviously has to be fixed - but the boot crash itself is PowerPC's own doing. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
