Re: [PATCH 2/7] genalloc: selftest

[J Freyensee]

On 2/26/18 4:11 AM, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> On 24/02/18 00:42, J Freyensee wrote:
> > > +	locations[action->location] = gen_pool_alloc(pool, action->size);
> > > +	BUG_ON(!locations[action->location]);
> > Again, I'd think it through if you really want to use BUG_ON() or not:
> >
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/13183/
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/4/1
> Is it acceptable to display only a WARNing, in case of risking damaging
> a mounted filesystem?

That's a good question. Based upon those articles, 'yes'. But it seems 
like a 'darned-if-you-do, darned-if-you-don't' question as couldn't you 
also corrupt a mounted filesystem by crashing the kernel, yes/no?

If you really want a system crash, maybe just do a panic() like 
filesystems also use?
> --
> igor