[PATCH] ARM: BUG() dies silently

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Tue Apr 5 13:36:39 EDT 2011


On 4/4/2011 6:55 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> Yes I've seen your patch (and even posted comments on it which have not
>> been responded to).
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Not yet! Don't worry I will get to it. I like the suggestion and am
> pleased that you pointed me to it, thank you.
>

Great!

>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but that patch with CONFIG_BUG=n would lead to
>> the same error that Omar is seeing because the code only modifies the
>> bug infrastructure when CONFIG_BUG=y.
> Well if CONFIG_BUG=n then there is no bug infrastructure, The whole
> file is skipped and it falls back to the asm-generic/bug.h which has
> even more #ifdefs in it. But I think we end up here:
>
> #define BUG() do {} while(0)
>
> After all the patch removes the *(int*)0 = 0 code by virtue of
> CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y, right? If I have this wrong then I will have to
> break out the C preprocessor...
>

Ah you're right. Too many ifdefs going on there.

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