kernel_optimize_test/mm
Linus Torvalds 50f5aa8a9b mm: don't pointlessly use BUG_ON() for sanity check
BUG_ON() is a big hammer, and should be used _only_ if there is some
major corruption that you cannot possibly recover from, making it
imperative that the current process (and possibly the whole machine) be
terminated with extreme prejudice.

The trivial sanity check in the vmacache code is *not* such a fatal
error.  Recovering from it is absolutely trivial, and using BUG_ON()
just makes it harder to debug for no actual advantage.

To make matters worse, the placement of the BUG_ON() (only if the range
check matched) actually makes it harder to hit the sanity check to begin
with, so _if_ there is a bug (and we just got a report from Srivatsa
Bhat that this can indeed trigger), it is harder to debug not just
because the machine is possibly dead, but because we don't have better
coverage.

BUG_ON() must *die*.  Maybe we should add a checkpatch warning for it,
because it is simply just about the worst thing you can ever do if you
hit some "this cannot happen" situation.

Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-28 14:24:09 -07:00
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backing-dev.c
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
cleancache.c
compaction.c
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c
filemap.c mm: fix new kernel-doc warning in filemap.c 2014-04-18 16:40:09 -07:00
fremap.c
frontswap.c
highmem.c
huge_memory.c thp: close race between split and zap huge pages 2014-04-18 16:40:09 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: add cond_resched_lock() in return_unused_surplus_pages() 2014-04-18 16:40:08 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h
interval_tree.c
iov_iter.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
list_lru.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
memblock.c
memcontrol.c
memory_hotplug.c
memory-failure.c
memory.c mm: split 'tlb_flush_mmu()' into tlb flushing and memory freeing parts 2014-04-25 16:05:40 -07:00
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c
page_cgroup.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
shmem.c mm: Initialize error in shmem_file_aio_read() 2014-04-13 14:10:26 -07:00
slab_common.c
slab.c Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2014-04-13 13:28:13 -07:00
slab.h
slob.c mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru 2014-04-11 10:06:06 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2014-04-13 13:28:13 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap_state.c
swap.c
swapfile.c
truncate.c
util.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
vmacache.c mm: don't pointlessly use BUG_ON() for sanity check 2014-04-28 14:24:09 -07:00
vmalloc.c
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c vmscan: reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() must use mod_zone_page_state() 2014-04-18 16:40:07 -07:00
vmstat.c
workingset.c
zbud.c
zsmalloc.c
zswap.c