On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
> */
> void irq_exit(void)
> {
> +#ifndef __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + local_irq_save(flags);
> +#else
> + BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled();
> +#endif
Guys, STOP DOING THIS!
Adding BUG_ON()'s just makes things much much much worse. There is
*never* a reason to add a BUG_ON(). And doing it in an interrupt path
is totally unacceptable. BUG_ON() makes it almost impossible to debug
something, because you just killed the machine. So using BUG_ON() for
"please notice this" is stupid as hell, because the most common end
result is: "Oh, the machine just hung with no messages".
Make it WARN_ON_ONCE() if you absolutely have to let people know, but
for something like this, why would you do even that?
Linus
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