linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] xen: Make all reserved pages for the balloon be INVALID_P2M

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Message-ID: <4D11369E.1090003@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:22:06 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] xen: Make all reserved pages for the balloon be
 INVALID_P2M_ENTRY.

On 12/21/2010 02:19 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Also, I'm not a fan of hiding real side-effectful code in a BUG_ON
> predicate.
> 

That's an understatement.  There are two schools of thought about what
that should mean if BUG_ON was suppressed at compile time.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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