Re: [PATCH 4/5] Generic BUG for powerpc

[Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
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> This makes powerpc use the generic BUG machinery.  The biggest
> difference from the previous powerpc bug code is that it no longer
> reports the function name, since it is redundant with kallsyms, and
> not needed in general.
> 
> There is an overall reduction of code, since module_32/64 duplicated several
> functions.
> 
> Unfortunately there's no way to tell gcc that BUG won't return, so the
> BUG macro includes a goto loop.  This will generate a real jmp
> instruction, which is never used.

I posted a patch a few weeks back to use __builtin_trap(), which gives
GCC the hint that it's not going to return.
(http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=7047)

Unfortunately this generated some negative feedback from some of our
crackhead ... er wonderful colleagues who want to be able to step over
BUGs in some circumstances.
(http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-September/026161.html)

I think they conceeded that it could be configurable, but I wasn't sure
it was worth the trouble.

cheers

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