From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262634AbUENUeZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 16:34:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262744AbUENUeZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 16:34:25 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:28349 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262634AbUENUeY (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2004 16:34:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:33:53 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Michael Buesch Cc: akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.6] bootmem.c cleanup Message-Id: <20040514133353.236acf3a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200405142205.27214.mbuesch@freenet.de> References: <200405142205.27214.mbuesch@freenet.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Buesch wrote: > > - if (!test_and_clear_bit(i, bdata->node_bootmem_map)) > - BUG(); > + BUG_ON(!test_and_clear_bit(i, bdata->node_bootmem_map)); Please don't put expressions whihc actually change state inside BUG_ON(). Someone may decide to make BUG_ON() a no-op to save space. I'm not aware of anyone actually trying that, but it's a good objective.