Re: [PATCH] 2.5.56-bug

Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:49:40 +0100


Hi Russell,
Hi LKML,

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:15:29PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> This patch appears not to be in 2.5.56, but applies cleanly.
>
> This patch moves BUG() and PAGE_BUG() from asm/page.h into asm/bug.h.

While we are at it: BUG() expects the offending task to be killed
so implementations, which just do a printk() there are
non-conforming.

Code paths which contain BUG() or BUG_ON() usally expect this
code-path to end and just threat the opposite condition to be
true.

A conforming implementation is panic(), if faulting is not that
easy in these architectures, but printk() is just plain wrong.

Mind to get a patch on top of your doing exactly this
modification?

Regards

Ingo Oeser

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