Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/7] Add assertion checking macros | Date | Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:38:05 +0000 |
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Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes: > > > > There is no need to display val here in the case the expression fails > > since it can only be 0. If this fails, it produces an error like the > > following: > > > > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > kernel BUG at fs/fscache/main.c:109! > > ASSERTION FAILED > > It would be nice to display the expression here like an user space > assert. While it can be looked up in the source it would > make quick eyeballing easier. > > Probably wouldn't cost too much additional text size?
It can easily be made selectable. I don't think text size should be much of an issue - but it will also add a bunch of strings (preprocessed expressions) to the rodata, and I'm not sure how big those can get - particularly if they've got nested macros within (test_bit() for example).
David
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