Re: [PATCH 2/7] genalloc: selftest

[Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@huawei.com>]

On 26/02/18 19:46, J Freyensee wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.A  Based upon those articles, 'yes'.A  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?

The idea is to do it very early in the boot phase, before early init,
when the kernel has not gotten even close to any storage device.

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

ok, if that's a more acceptable way to halt the kernel, I do not mind.

--
igor

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