linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] Generic BUG handling.

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Date:	Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:43:55 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Hugh Dickens <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] Generic BUG handling.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> What is the locking for these lists?  I don't see much in here.  It has
> implications for code which wants to do BUG while holding that lock..
>   

There's no locking.  This is a direct copy of the original powerpc 
code.  I assume, but haven't checked, that there's a lock to serialize 
module loading/unloading, so the insertion/deletion is all properly 
synchronized. 

The only other user is traversal when actually handling a bug; if you're 
very unlucky this could happen while you're actually loading/unloading 
and you would see the list in an inconsistent state.  I guess we could 
put a lock there, and trylock it on traversal; at least that would stop 
a concurrent modload/unload from getting in there while we're trying to 
walk the list.

> Shouldn't this be u64? ;)
>   

I'll get right on that.  And perhaps it should be signed if people 
overshoot and introduce a negative number of BUGs.

    J
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