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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More cleanups for swsusp
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:30:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120213037.66c9d5a0.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040121051855.B0C282C0A7@lists.samba.org>

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>
> In message <20040120225219.GA19190@elf.ucw.cz> you write:
>  > -	if (fill_suspend_header(&cur->sh))
>  > -		panic("\nOut of memory while writing header");
>  > +	BUG_ON (fill_suspend_header(&cur->sh));
> 
> ...
>  3) BUG_ON(complex condition expression) is much less clear than:
> 
>  	if (complex condition expression)
>  		BUG();

Worse.  If some smarty goes and makes BUG_ON a no-op (for space reasons),
it will break software suspend.  We should ensure that the expression which
is supplied to BUG_ON() never has side-effects for this reason.

I'll drop that chunk.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-20 22:52 Pavel Machek
2004-01-20 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-20 23:25   ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-21  5:10   ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-22  0:17     ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-21  5:14 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-21  5:30   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-21 18:39     ` Matt Mackall
2004-01-22  2:03       ` Rusty Russell

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