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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:57:26 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data corruption

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:53:54 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:


>              WARN(1, "list_del corruption. next->prev should be %p, but was %p\n",
>                      entry, next->prev);
>              BUG_ON(CORRUPTED_DATA_STRUCTURE);
> 
> Will always warn (as stated by "1") and and the BUG_ON() will bug if
> CORRUPTED_DATA_STRUCTURE is set. Although, I don't like that name. Can
> we have a:
> 
>  BUG_ON(BUG_ON_CORRUPTED_DATA_STRUCTURES);
> 
> Or maybe have that as a macro:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_BUG_ON_CORRUPTION
> # define BUG_ON_CORRUPTED_DATA_STRUCTURE() BUG_ON(1)
> #else
> # define BUG_ON_CORRUPTED_DATA_STRUCTURE() do {} while (0)
> #endif
> 
> Then we can have:
> 
>              WARN(1, "list_del corruption. next->prev should be %p, but was %p\n",
>                      entry, next->prev);
>              BUG_ON_CORRUPTED_DATA_STRUCTURE();
> 
> ??
> 

Hmm, maybe better yet, just have it called "CORRUPTED_DATA_STRUCTURE()"
because it wont bug if the config is not set, and having "BUG_ON" in
the name, it might be somewhat confusing.

-- Steve

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