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SubjectRe: "mm: fix lazyfree BUG_ON check in try_to_unmap_one()" build error
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On 03/10/2017 01:45 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 01:27:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:02:26 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Sergey reported VM_WARN_ON_ONCE returns void with !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>>> so we cannot use it as if's condition unlike WARN_ON.
>>
>> Can we instead fix VM_WARN_ON_ONCE()?
>
> I thought the direction but the reason to decide WARN_ON_ONCE in this case
> is losing of benefit with using CONFIG_DEBU_VM if we go that way.
>
> I think the benefit with VM_WARN_ON friends is that it should be completely
> out from the binary in !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. However, if we fix VM_WARN_ON
> like WARN_ON to !!condition, at least, compiler should generate condition
> check and return so it's not what CONFIG_DEBUG_VM want, IMHO.
> However, if guys believe it's okay to add some instructions to debug VM
> although we disable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, we can go that way.
> It's a just policy matter. ;-)
>
> Anyway, Even though we fix VM_WARN_ON_ONCE, in my case, WARN_ON_ONCE is
> better because we should do !!condition regardless of CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
> and if so, WARN_ON is more wide coverage than VM_WARN_ON which only works
> with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

Agreed. WARN_ON...() can work that way as one can't disable them
(AFAIK), but VM_* variants are optional for overhead reasons.

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