linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/jump-label: Show where and what was wrong on errors

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Date:	Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:57:20 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/jump-label: Show where and what was wrong on
 errors


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

> On 08/12/2013 07:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 07:20:44PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >> Besides, BUG can be disabled in CONFIG_EXPERT.
> > 
> > There was some email on this subject a while ago; disabling BUG() is 
> > very risky and can cause all kinds of horrid. IIRC the consensus back 
> > then was to remove this 'feature' and have BUG always at least lock up 
> > the machine hard.
> 
> Yes, always trap but leave the metadata as optional.

I think those patches are going forward, so we can just regard BUG() as 
always existing from a program flow POV.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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