Subject: [patch] change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..."
From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
WARN_ON() ever triggering is a kernel bug. Do not try to paper over this
fact by suggesting to the user that this is 'only' a warning, as the
following recent commit does:
commit 30e25b71e725b150585e17888b130e3324f8cf7c
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Dec 8 02:36:24 2006 -0800
[PATCH] Fix generic WARN_ON message
A warning is a warning, not a BUG.
( it might make sense to rename BUG() to CRASH() and BUG_ON() to
CRASH_ON(), but that does not change the fact that WARN_ON()
signals a kernel bug. )
i and others objected to this change during lkml review:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116115160710533&w=2
still the change slipped upstream - grumble :)
Also, use the standard "BUG: " format to make it easier to grep logs and
to make it easier to google for kernel bugs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
include/asm-generic/bug.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux/include/asm-generic/bug.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-generic/bug.h
+++ linux/include/asm-generic/bug.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct bug_entry {
#define WARN_ON(condition) ({ \
typeof(condition) __ret_warn_on = (condition); \
if (unlikely(__ret_warn_on)) { \
- printk("WARNING at %s:%d %s()\n", __FILE__, \
+ printk("BUG: at %s:%d %s()\n", __FILE__, \
__LINE__, __FUNCTION__); \
dump_stack(); \
} \
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