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SubjectRe: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch
At Sat, 10 Jul 2004 02:52:08 +0200,
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:50:17AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > agreed. might_sleep() just like BUG() can be defined to noop.
>
> BTW, this reminded me a related topic that I can't recall being ever
> mentioned on l-k: BUG_ON can also be optimized away. So people should be
> careful not to do write this:
>
> BUG_ON(test_and_set_bit(p))
>
> but to write this instead:
>
> if (unlikely(test_and_set_bit(p))
> BUG()

Couldn't it be simply written like below?

#define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition) do { if (unlikely(condition)) BUILD_BUG(); } while(0)



Takashi
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