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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] use BUG_ON correctly, v4
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On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 01:26 +0800, Coly Li wrote:
> Most of BUG_ON() implementations use unlikely() internally for better
> branch prediction results. The following method to use BUG_ON() with
> an explicit unlikely() doesn't make things better and is unwelcome:
> BUG_ON(unlikely(condition));
> Source code should use BUG_ON() just with condition code.
>
> For arch implementation of BUG_ON(), there are feed backs for v2 patch
> set from MIPS and PowerPC developers than neither explicit no implicit
> unlikely() does help anything.
>
> Therefore using unlikely() explicit with BUG_ON() is always a bug. This
> patch set removes all incorrect BUG_ON() usage.
>
> Patch "Staging: wl_cfg80211.c: use BUG_ON correctly" is merged into
> upstream (commit d7ddd169), no longer in v4 patch set. For v4
> patch set, proper maintainers are added into Cc list by the help of
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl.
>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
> Cc: Wang Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Coly Li <bosong.ly@taobao.com>
> ---
> drivers/dma/iop-adma.c | 6 +++---
> drivers/dma/mv_xor.c | 6 +++---
> drivers/dma/ppc4xx/adma.c | 8 ++++----
> drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 4 ++--
> 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
Thanks, Applied first 3 patches. 4th one should go to scsi folks.
It would help if you can split patch series per subsystem.

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~Vinod



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