Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263659AbTIHUIT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:08:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263651AbTIHUIT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:08:19 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:54927 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263659AbTIHUIQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:08:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:07:41 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rusty Russell , hugh@veritas.com, drepper@redhat.com, lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk, shemminger@osdl.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: today's futex changes Message-ID: <20030908200741.GH27097@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030908102309.0AC4E2C013@lists.samba.org> <20030908120234.5d05cda9.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030908120234.5d05cda9.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 17 Andrew Morton wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > D: 4) Andrew Morton says spurious wakeup is a bug. Catch it. > > Yes, but going BUG() is a bit rude. We can detect the error, we can > recover from it and it doesn't cause any user data corruption or anything. > A rude printk is all that is needed here. Well, it should really _never_ happen. We are very careful. Is there something like BUG() which doesn't terminate the process? -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/