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Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI

From Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI
Date 2016-10-03 18:30 +0200
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On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 17:45:14 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:36:24AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&pi_state->refcount));  
> > 
> > Don't we have a rule where WARN_ON() and BUG_ON() should never have
> > "side effects"? That is, they should only check values, but their
> > contents should not update values.  
> 
> not that I'm aware, there's various places in the kernel (including
> kref.h) that relies on WARN_ON*() having side effects.

Looking more into it, I believe the "no side effect" is only with
BUG_ON(), as WARN_ON() can be used within if statements.

-- Steve

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[RFC][PATCH 0/4] FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI wobbles Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-03 11:30 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-03 11:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-10-03 17:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-03 17:50 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-10-03 18:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-03 17:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-05 09:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-05 10:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-05 10:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-05 10:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-06 12:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-07 13:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-08 18:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-08 19:00 +0200
          Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-08 19:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-10 12:30 +0200
            Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-10 13:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-08 20:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-09 13:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] futex: Rewrite FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-10 16:10 +0200
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    Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] futex: Cleanup variable names for  futex_top_waiter() Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-10-03 16:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] futex: Cleanup variable names for  futex_top_waiter() Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-10-05 06:00 +0200
  [RFC][PATCH 3/4] futex: Remove rt_mutex_deadlock_account_*() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-03 11:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/4] futex: Remove rt_mutex_deadlock_account_*() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-03 11:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/4] futex: Remove rt_mutex_deadlock_account_*() Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-10-03 16:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/4] futex: Remove rt_mutex_deadlock_account_*() Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-10-05 03:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/4] futex: Remove rt_mutex_deadlock_account_*() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-05 09:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI wobbles Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-10-05 03:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI wobbles Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-10-05 08:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI wobbles Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-05 09:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI wobbles Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-10-05 18:10 +0200

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