From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932333Ab3HGSlS (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:41:18 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:58875 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753085Ab3HGSlR (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:41:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 20:41:14 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Jason Baron Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/jump-label: Show where and what was wrong on errors Message-ID: <20130807184114.GK17920@pd.tnic> References: <20130807164934.149920591@goodmis.org> <20130807165114.147890467@goodmis.org> <20130807172044.GC18272@pd.tnic> <1375896786.6848.14.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130807173744.GD18272@pd.tnic> <1375897584.6848.15.camel@gandalf.local.home> <5202892F.7010804@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5202892F.7010804@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:51:43AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > A bigger issue is probably if panic-on-bug should be the default, with > !panic being an opt-in debugging option. Yes, it might make sense although embedded wants to disable CONFIG_BUG on systems which cannot report errors: │ CONFIG_BUG: │ │ Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing │ the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring │ numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this │ option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. │ Just say Y. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --