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There's no good reason to crash a user's system with a BUG_ON(), chances are high that they'll never even see the crash message on Xorg, and it won't make it into the syslog either. By using a WARN_ON_ONCE() we at least give the user a chance to report any bugs triggered here - instead of getting silent hangs. None of these WARN_ON_ONCE()s are supposed to trigger, ever - so we ignore cases where a NULL check is done via a BUG_ON() and we let a NULL pointer through after a WARN_ON_ONCE(). There's one exception: WARN_ON_ONCE() arguments with side-effects, such as locking - in this case we use the return value of the WARN_ON_ONCE(), such as in: - BUG_ON(!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags)); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags))) + return; Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YvSsKcAXISmshtHo@gmail.com |
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README
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.