linux-kernel - [patch] change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..."

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Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:43:28 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: [patch] change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..."

Subject: [patch] change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..."
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

WARN_ON() ever triggering is a kernel bug. Do not try to paper over this 
fact by suggesting to the user that this is 'only' a warning, as the 
following recent commit does:

  commit 30e25b71e725b150585e17888b130e3324f8cf7c
  Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
  Date:   Fri Dec 8 02:36:24 2006 -0800

    [PATCH] Fix generic WARN_ON message

    A warning is a warning, not a BUG.

( it might make sense to rename BUG() to CRASH() and BUG_ON() to
  CRASH_ON(), but that does not change the fact that WARN_ON()
  signals a kernel bug. )

i and others objected to this change during lkml review:

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116115160710533&w=2

still the change slipped upstream - grumble :)

Also, use the standard "BUG: " format to make it easier to grep logs and 
to make it easier to google for kernel bugs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 include/asm-generic/bug.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/include/asm-generic/bug.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-generic/bug.h
+++ linux/include/asm-generic/bug.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct bug_entry {
 #define WARN_ON(condition) ({						\
 	typeof(condition) __ret_warn_on = (condition);			\
 	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_on)) {					\
-		printk("WARNING at %s:%d %s()\n", __FILE__,	\
+		printk("BUG: at %s:%d %s()\n", __FILE__,		\
 			__LINE__, __FUNCTION__);			\
 		dump_stack();						\
 	}								\
-
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