Re: [PATCH] Make

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue May 20 2008 - 10:56:13 EST




On Tue, 20 May 2008, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> Like this ? (I don't have a -mm handy, so guessed based on mm-commits mail,
> patch uncompiled, but should dtrt if I understood your diff correctly)
>
> diff --git a/lib/list_debug.c b/lib/list_debug.c
> index 4350ba9..d8dee53 100644
> --- a/lib/list_debug.c
> +++ b/lib/list_debug.c
> @@ -21,16 +21,14 @@ void __list_add(struct list_head *new,
> struct list_head *next)
> {
> if (unlikely(next->prev != prev)) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR "list_add corruption. next->prev should be "
> + WARN(1, "list_add corruption. next->prev should be "
> "prev (%p), but was %p. (next=%p).\n",
> prev, next->prev, next);
> - BUG();
> }

I think Arjan meant like

WARN(next->prev != prev,
"list_add corruption. next->prev should be "
"prev (%p), but was %p. (next=%p).\n",
prev, next->prev, next);

without any "if()" statement at all.

Linus
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