From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937525AbYEBXVm (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 19:21:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937461AbYEBXVU (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 19:21:20 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36092 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937453AbYEBXVS (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 19:21:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 16:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080502.162118.113930840.davem@davemloft.net> To: arjan@infradead.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() to the transmit timeout function From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080501133424.678be79a@infradead.org> References: <20080501133424.678be79a@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 13:34:24 -0700 > WARN_ON_ONCE() gives a stack trace including the full module list. > Having this in the kernel dump for the timeout case in the > generic netdev watchdog will help us see quicker which driver > is involved. It also allows us to collect statistics > and patterns in terms of which drivers have this event occuring. > > Suggested by Andrew Morton > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Looks good, applied.