Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch
From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 19:53:40 EST
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:50:17AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> agreed. might_sleep() just like BUG() can be defined to noop.
BTW, this reminded me a related topic that I can't recall being ever
mentioned on l-k: BUG_ON can also be optimized away. So people should be
careful not to do write this:
BUG_ON(test_and_set_bit(p))
but to write this instead:
if (unlikely(test_and_set_bit(p))
BUG()
(in short the check inside a BUG_ON must be strictly read-only since
it's not guaranteed to be computed)
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