Re: Linux 3.19-rc5

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Feb 03 2015 - 06:19:13 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 05:25:07PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > PeterZ, please don't make "debugging" patches like this. Ever
> > again. Because this was just stupid, and it took me too long
> > to realize that despite the warning being shut up, the debug
> > patch was still actively doing bad bad things.
>
> Understood.

It was my fault too - I should have realized this side effect of
the new debugging facility when I merged it, which side effect,
as Linus pointed it out, is a really bad idea.

We are generally pretty good at doing transparent debugging in
the scheduler and in the locking code, but screwed up this time
around :-(

Thanks,

Ingo
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