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Re: [PATCH] xen: Rework WARN_ON() to return whether a warning was triggered


  • To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
  • From: Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH] xen: Rework WARN_ON() to return whether a warning was triggered

Hi Julien,

> On 15 Dec 2020, at 13:11, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Juergen,
> 
> On 15/12/2020 11:31, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>> On 15.12.20 12:26, Julien Grall wrote:
>>> From: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 
>>> So far, our implementation of WARN_ON() cannot be used in the following
>>> situation:
>>> 
>>> if ( WARN_ON() )
>>>      ...
>>> 
>>> This is because the WARN_ON() doesn't return whether a warning. Such
>> ... warning has been triggered.
> 
> I will add it.
> 
>>> construction can be handy to have if you have to print more information
>>> and now the stack track.
>> Sorry, I'm not able to parse that sentence.
> 
> Urgh :/. How about the following commit message:
> 
> "So far, our implementation of WARN_ON() cannot be used in the following 
> situation:
> 
> if ( WARN_ON() )
>  ...
> 
> This is because WARN_ON() doesn't return whether a warning has been 
> triggered. Such construciton can be handy if you want to print more 
> information and also dump the stack trace.
> 
> Therefore, rework the WARN_ON() implementation to return whether a warning 
> was triggered. The idea was borrowed from Linux".

With that.

Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@xxxxxxx>

And thanks a lot for this :-)

Cheers
Bertrand

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Julien Grall


 


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