Re: [patch 0/5] enhance WARN_ON series

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Jan 06 2008 - 04:26:56 EST



* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 3rd try for this patch series; now with a split up patch for __WARN_ON
>
> This series has the goal of extending the usefulness of the WARN_ON()
> information, at least on architectures that use the generic WARN_ON()
> infrastructure. (Those who do their own thing either already have the
> extra information, or could consider switching to the generic code).
> In order to do that, WARN_ON() first needs to be uninlined since
> there's like 1200 callsites and adding code to each of those isn't
> pretty.
>
> As part of this, I had to split the __WARN_ON patch in -mm into 2
> pieces, one to introduce __WARN_ON, and a separate one to do the ifdef
> cleanup.

i've added the first 3 patches to x86.git, for further testing - and
would expect -mm to pick up #4/#5.

Ingo
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