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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1604271216400.3941@nanos>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:17:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Lianwei Wang <lianwei.wang@...il.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, oleg@...hat.com,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu/hotplug: handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Lianwei Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> >> Anyway, from a product perspective way, if we don't want to restore
> >> the unbalanced counter to 0, then maybe a BUG_ON is more reasonable
> >> than WARN_ON.
> >
> > Not at all. BUG_ON is the last resort if we have no other way to handle an
> > issue.
> Actually to the customer, you do nothing currently at all, and once it
> happened then there is no way for the customer to recover it except do
> a power cycle. A BUG_ON can trigger a power cycle and recover it.
Do you have a single incident where this happened?
Thanks,
tglx
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