Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:06:12 +0200 | From | Sebastian Siewior <> | Subject | Re: xfs bug in 2.6.26-rc9 |
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* Dave Chinner | 2008-07-12 09:22:01 [+1000]:
>I effectively quoted from it: > >config XFS_DEBUG > bool "XFS Debugging support (EXPERIMENTAL)" > depends on XFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL > help > Say Y here to get an XFS build with many debugging features, > including ASSERT checks, function wrappers around macros, > and extra sanity-checking functions in various code paths. > > Note that the resulting code will be HUGE and SLOW, and probably > not useful unless you are debugging a particular problem. > > Say N unless you are an XFS developer, or you play one on TV. > >> Debug mode is usually >> noisy, little slower and mostly usefull just to the developers but *I* >> would not expect to BUG() in the non-fatal case. > >What do you expect debug code to do? Asserts are designed to >drop the machine into a debugger when they fail so the problem can >be, well, debugged. Sorry, I haven't read this. Userspace assert() results in abort() so it sane to bug() in kernel.
>Dave. Sebastian
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