Re: [PATCH v21 1/5] xbitmap: Introduce xbitmap

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:45:51PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Now, the question about test case. Why do you heavily use BUG_ON?
> Isn't resulting statistics enough?

No.  If any of those tests fail, we want to stop dead.  They'll lead to
horrendous bugs throughout the kernel if they're wrong.  I think more of
the in-kernel test suite should stop dead instead of printing a warning.
Would you want to boot a machine which has a known bug in the page cache,
for example?