Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:45:29 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/jump-label: Show where and what was wrong on errors |
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On 08/07/2013 11:41 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:51:43AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> A bigger issue is probably if panic-on-bug should be the default, with >> !panic being an opt-in debugging option. > > Yes, it might make sense although embedded wants to disable CONFIG_BUG > on systems which cannot report errors: >
There is another thread going on to convert BUG to trap even on machines where CONFIG_BUG is disabled, i.e. CONFIG_BUG would control the metadata only. With the configuration option off, you would get the address of the failure only.
-hpa
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