From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262678AbVDAJf2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:35:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262676AbVDAJf2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:35:28 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62689 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262678AbVDAJfR (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:35:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 01:34:54 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Matt Mackall Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove all kernel bugs Message-Id: <20050401013454.1205a3f5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050401090744.GD15453@waste.org> References: <20050401090744.GD15453@waste.org> 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 Matt Mackall wrote: > > I've been sitting on this patch for a while, figured it's high time I > shared it with the world. This patch eliminates all kernel bugs, trims > about 35k off the typical kernel, and makes the system slightly > faster. The patch is against the latest bk snapshot, please apply. ho-hum, more ifdefs. How's about you nuke PAGE_BUG first? Just replace it with BUG() everywhere. Or do it as a later patch - doesn't matter much I guess. Or tell me to naff off and don't do it at all ;)