On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:30:48PM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:25 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > > ext4: Don't panic in case of corrupt bitmap > > > > From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Multiblock allocator was calling BUG_ON in many case if the free and used > > blocks count obtained looking at the bitmap is different from what > > the allocator internally accounted for. Use ext4_error in such case > > and don't panic the system. > > > > There seems a lot of BUG_ON() and BUG() in mballoc code, other than this > case. Should it always panic the whole system in those cases? Perhaps > replacing with ext4_error() or some cases just WARN_ON is enough. >
I had looked at the BUG_ON in mballoc code and found them very useful while stabilizing the mballoc code. It helped to catch wrong usage of functions. Most of the BUG_ON are there to make sure we call the API with the lock held or the API should not return value greater than 'x' Should not call the function with a particular argument as NULL ...etc kind of thing. So i would suggest to keep them as such. -aneesh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
