Re: [PATCH v3 03/14] sched/core: uclamp: add CPU's clamp groups accounting

From: Dietmar Eggemann
Date: Wed Aug 15 2018 - 07:00:02 EST


On 08/15/2018 12:54 PM, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
On 15-Aug 11:37, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
On 08/14/2018 06:49 PM, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
Hi Dietmar!

On 14-Aug 17:44, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
On 08/06/2018 06:39 PM, Patrick Bellasi wrote:

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If this is only for testing/debugging, I would suggest a simple one line
BUG_ON()

These are (eventually) considered as recoverable errors... thus,
AFAIK, using BUG_ON is overkilling and discouraged:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/asm-generic/bug.h#L42

Not sure about that. If this refcounting is out of sync, that's indicating a serious issue here for me which should be fixed.

You find CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y in production kernels as well.

AFAIK, that setting is discouraged for production kernels...
Moreover, it's still better to WARN sometimes on a production kernel
the crash the device, isnt't it?

IMHO, if this is something which should not happen at all, a BUG_ON() is the right thing to do here. And you get the call stack to investigate why it hit.