linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -rt] remove in_interrupt() BUG

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Message-Id: <1193787796.4673.74.camel@imap.mvista.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:43:16 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, kraj@...sta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt] remove in_interrupt() BUG_ON in exit path

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 19:44 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> I did this change once before, while debugging. I had the same issue. This
> BUG_ON was giving me recursive crashes that prevented me knowing WTF was
> going on.  I thought I even submitted a patch to remove it. Perhaps I
> forgot to. Nope, I did!
> 
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1804.html

I wonder if Ingo had his reasons for keeping it.. They're may have been
a benefit to doing a BUG_ON at one point .. I don't know ..

Daniel

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