Re: [PATCH-tip] locking/qspinlock: Remove unnecessary BUG_ON() call

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Feb 25 2019 - 07:12:46 EST


On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 08:14:13PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> With the > 4 nesting levels case handled by the commit d682b596d993
> ("locking/qspinlock: Handle > 4 slowpath nesting levels"), the BUG_ON()
> call in encode_tail() will never be triggered. Remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> index 21ee51b..5e9247d 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> @@ -124,9 +124,6 @@ static inline __pure u32 encode_tail(int cpu, int idx)
> {
> u32 tail;
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> - BUG_ON(idx > 3);
> -#endif
> tail = (cpu + 1) << _Q_TAIL_CPU_OFFSET;
> tail |= idx << _Q_TAIL_IDX_OFFSET; /* assume < 4 */

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

Will