Re: Patch: linux-2.5.30/arch/arm/mach-iop310/iq80310-pci.c BUG_ON(cond1 || cond2) separation

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:02:41 +0100


On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 01:17:40PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> I want to replace all statements in the kernel of the form
> BUG_ON(condition1 || condition2) with:
>
> BUG_ON(condition1);
> BUG_ON(condition2);

Why? In the case below, its one logical error (value out of range).
The register dump tells you more information. In fact, I don't care
which side of less than 1 or greater than 4 pin actually is. It's
indicating a bug in the PCI subsystem either way, and the analysis
is the same in either case.

> I was recently bitten by a very sporadic BUG_ON(cond1 || cond2)
> statement and was quite annoyed at the greatly reduced opportunity to
> debug the problem. Make these changes and someone who experiences
> the problem may be able to provide slightly more useful information.

This would make sense of the two conditions were unrelated to each
other.

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