Re: BUG_ON() in workingset_node_shadows_dec() triggers

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Tue Oct 04 2016 - 22:44:21 EST


On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> I should have reacted to the damn added BUG_ON() lines. I suspect I
> will have to finally just remove the idiotic BUG_ON() concept once and
> for all, because there is NO F*CKING EXCUSE to knowingly kill the
> kernel.

A couple years ago Ingo had an idea to kill BUG_ON abuse that I made
a 1st pass at. Back then it seemed nobody cared. Maybe that has since
changed?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/30/359

P.
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