Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756346AbXJ3XtT (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:49:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752492AbXJ3XtK (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:49:10 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:28257 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751262AbXJ3XtJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:49:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt] remove in_interrupt() BUG_ON in exit path From: Daniel Walker To: Steven Rostedt Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, kraj@mvista.com In-Reply-To: References: <20071030224004.417523706@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:43:16 -0700 Message-Id: <1193787796.4673.74.camel@imap.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 19:44 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I did this change once before, while debugging. I had the same issue. This > BUG_ON was giving me recursive crashes that prevented me knowing WTF was > going on. I thought I even submitted a patch to remove it. Perhaps I > forgot to. Nope, I did! > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1804.html I wonder if Ingo had his reasons for keeping it.. They're may have been a benefit to doing a BUG_ON at one point .. I don't know .. Daniel - 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/