linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v21 1/5] xbitmap: Introduce xbitmap

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:58:48 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>, virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, mhocko@...nel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>, david@...hat.com,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        cornelia.huck@...ibm.com, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
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        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v21 1/5] xbitmap: Introduce xbitmap

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:45:51PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Now, the question about test case. Why do you heavily use BUG_ON?
> Isn't resulting statistics enough?

No.  If any of those tests fail, we want to stop dead.  They'll lead to
horrendous bugs throughout the kernel if they're wrong.  I think more of
the in-kernel test suite should stop dead instead of printing a warning.
Would you want to boot a machine which has a known bug in the page cache,
for example?