On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> So instead of the BUG_ON() we could emit a WARN_ONCE() perhaps, plus not
> do any spinning and just block - resulting in an uninterruptible task
> (that the user will probably notice) and a scary message in the syslog?
> [all in the slowpath]
Sure. You could put it in the adaptive function thing, with something like
if (WARN_ONCE(waiter == owner))
return 1;
which should fall back on the old behavior and do the one-time warning.
Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
