On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:36:27PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
>  > Clutching at straws, I expect this is entirely irrelevant, but:
>  > there isn't a warning on line 1151 of mm/shmem.c in 3.7.0-rc2 nor
>  > in current linux.git; rather, there's a VM_BUG_ON on line 1149.
>  > 
>  > So you've inserted a couple of lines for some reason (more useful
>  > trinity behaviour, perhaps)? 
> 
> detritus from the recent mpol_to_str bug that I was chasing.
> Shouldn't be relevant...
> 
>  > And have some config option I'm
>  > unfamiliar with, that mutates a BUG_ON or VM_BUG_ON into a warning?
> 
> Yes, I do have this..
> 
> -#define VM_BUG_ON(cond) BUG_ON(cond)
> +#define VM_BUG_ON(cond) WARN_ON(cond)
> 
> because I got tired of things not going over my usb serial port when I hit 
> them
> a while ago. BUG_ON is pretty unfriendly to bug finding.

Makes sense, thanks for the reassurance.

Hugh
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