linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Stop BUGing the system

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Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2014 07:11:19 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
Cc:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Stop BUGing the system

On 18 December 2014 at 20:19, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com> wrote:
> I can add "could be unstable" -> the point being there can be psuedo
> errors reported in the system - example - clock framework bugs. Dont
> just stop the boot. example: what if cpufreq was a driver module - it
> would not have rescued the system because cpufreq had'nt detected the
> logic - if we are going to force this on the system, we should probably
> not do this in cpufreq code, instead should be somewhere generic.
>
> While I do empathise (and had infact advocated in the past) of not
> favouring system attempting to continue at an invalid configuration and
> our attempt to rescue has failed - given that we cannot provide a
> consistent behavior (it is not a core system behavior) and potential of
> a false-postive (example clk framework or underlying bug), it should be
> good enough to "enhance" WARN to be "severe sounding enough" to
> flag it for developer and continue while keeping the system alive as
> much as possible.

There is no way out for the kernel to know if its a false positive or a real
bug. And in the worst case, it can screw up a platform completely.

I am still not sure if changing it to a WARN would be good idea.

@Rafael: Thoughts ?
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