The patch titled Use WARN() in mm/vmalloc.c has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is use-warn-in-mm-vmallocc.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Use WARN() in mm/vmalloc.c From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmalloc.c~use-warn-in-mm-vmallocc mm/vmalloc.c --- a/mm/vmalloc.c~use-warn-in-mm-vmallocc +++ a/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -381,16 +381,14 @@ static void __vunmap(const void *addr, i return; if ((PAGE_SIZE-1) & (unsigned long)addr) { - printk(KERN_ERR "Trying to vfree() bad address (%p)\n", addr); - WARN_ON(1); + WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Trying to vfree() bad address (%p)\n", addr); return; } area = remove_vm_area(addr); if (unlikely(!area)) { - printk(KERN_ERR "Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (%p)\n", + WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (%p)\n", addr); - WARN_ON(1); return; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch via-velocity-fix-sleep-with-spinlock-bug-during-mtu-change.patch rename-warn-to-warning-to-clear-the-namespace.patch add-a-warn-macro-this-is-warn_on-printk-arguments.patch kernel-irq-managec-replace-a-printk-warn_on-to-a-warn.patch example-use-of-warn.patch use-warn-in-kernel-irq-managec.patch use-warn-in-kernel-panicc.patch use-warn-in-mm-vmallocc.patch use-warn-in-kernel-lockdepc.patch use-warn-in-kernel-irq-chipc.patch use-warn-in-arch-x86-mm-ioremapc.patch use-warn-in-arch-x86-mm-pageattrc.patch use-warn-in-arch-x86-kernel.patch use-warn-in-block.patch use-warn-in-drivers-base.patch use-warn-in-lib.patch use-warn-in-fs.patch usr-warn-in-fs-sysfs.patch use-warn-in-fs-proc.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html