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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: hpa@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] break up slow_virt_to_phys()
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:29:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130411122944.GA27062@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130410233254.EF273179@viggo.jf.intel.com>

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 04:32:54PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> +phys_addr_t slow_virt_to_phys(void *virt_addr)
> +{
> +	phys_addr_t result;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = kernel_lookup_vaddr(virt_addr, &result);
> +	BUG_ON(ret);

Isn't that BUG_ON still too harsh though? How about WARN_ON instead?
It would still create a lot of noise so that it gets fixed without
bringing down the system.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-11 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-10 23:32 [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] rework /dev/mem code vs. highmem and DEBUG_VIRTUAL Dave Hansen
2013-04-10 23:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] clean up checks against "high_memory" variable Dave Hansen
2013-04-11  0:44   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-10 23:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] make /dev/kmem return error for highmem Dave Hansen
2013-04-11  9:58   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-10 23:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] avoid /dev/kmem oopses with DEBUG_VIRTUAL Dave Hansen
2013-04-10 23:32 ` [PATCH 4/5] break up slow_virt_to_phys() Dave Hansen
2013-04-11 12:29   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-04-11 16:28     ` Dave Hansen
2013-04-11 17:12       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-10 23:32 ` [PATCH 5/5] keep /dev/kmem from triggering BUG_ON() with DEBUG_VIRTUAL Dave Hansen
2013-04-11 12:37   ` Borislav Petkov

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