Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752672AbcJECoS (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:44:18 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:36030 "EHLO mail-vk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750940AbcJECoQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:44:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Gortmaker Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:43:45 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Ekn2p8Yl-itVy5aMYN980Sf300g Message-ID: Subject: Re: BUG_ON() in workingset_node_shadows_dec() triggers To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , Antonio SJ Musumeci , Miklos Szeredi , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 512 Lines: 18 On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] > I should have reacted to the damn added BUG_ON() lines. I suspect I > will have to finally just remove the idiotic BUG_ON() concept once and > for all, because there is NO F*CKING EXCUSE to knowingly kill the > kernel. A couple years ago Ingo had an idea to kill BUG_ON abuse that I made a 1st pass at. Back then it seemed nobody cared. Maybe that has since changed? https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/30/359 P. --