Re: Proposed patch to kernel.h

[Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)]

On Thu, 29 May 2003, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> On second thoughts, it would be cleaner to move BUG_ON() into each
> architecture's bug.h alongside BUG() and PAGE_BUG(), rather than using
> an ifdef in kernel.h as my previous patch did.

Wouldn't it make sense to do the same thing to "WARN_ON()" then? It sounds 
entirely appropriate to use the same kind of conditional trap instructions 
for that too.. (The only difference being a bit somewhere that says that 
the "WARN_ON()" kind of trap handler should resume after the fault).

		Linus

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