Re: [2.6 patch] if ... BUG() -> BUG_ON()

[Anton Blanchard]

> You know, I dislike this.
> 
> The right fix is to hack gcc to allow functions (in this case, BUG()) to have
> an "unlikely" attribute, and therefore know that this branch is unlikely.

FYI the ppc32 and ppc64 BUG_ON avoids the branch completely thanks to
some clever code from paulus. Im not however advocating we rip through
the entire kernel and BUG_ON enable it :)

Anton
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