[PATCH] arch: configuration, deleting 'CONFIG_BUG' since always need it.
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed May 29 00:55:32 EST 2013
On 05/28/2013 01:19 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> So I think the same principle applies to it as to any other debugging
> code: it's fine to be able to turn debugging off. It's a performance
> versus kernel robustness/determinism trade-off.
>
I suspect, rather, that BUG() should turn into a trap (or jump to a
death routine) under any circumstances. The one thing that can be
omitted for small configurations are the annotations, which only serve
to output a more human-readable error message.
-hpa
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