Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 10:32:03 -0800 From: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r325386 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <CAG6CVpVQ4RSgz883ezsdExVDQ4RbSiR_y%2BZ5XWDNFeYBpMS-cQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20171105173032.GE2566@kib.kiev.ua> References: <201711041049.vA4AnZUE096709@repo.freebsd.org> <CAG6CVpUaXSX26Bc839kn96EXnUjtGyQ3_eNJPhsRB%2Bv6G6gH1Q@mail.gmail.com> <20171105130607.GA2566@kib.kiev.ua> <CAG6CVpV3SfV8VuNeMJEuN%2BMSu3424mK=HO_-YW9vRt9HEdcJZQ@mail.gmail.com> <20171105173032.GE2566@kib.kiev.ua>
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E.g., --- a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c +++ b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c @@ -304,8 +304,7 @@ retry: } if (bp->b_blkno == bp->b_lblkno) { - if (lbprev >= UFS_NDADDR) - panic("ffs_realloccg: lbprev out of range"); + ASSERT(lbprev < UFS_NDADDR, "ffs_realloccg: lbprev out of range"); bp->b_blkno = fsbtodb(fs, bprev); } On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 09:16:28AM -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 12:04:56PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote: >> >> This is a functional change, because MPASS (via KASSERT) is only >> >> enabled on DEBUG kernels. Ideally we would have a kind of ASSERT that >> >> worked on NODEBUG kernels. >> > Why would we need such thing ? >> > >> > Our conventions are clear: consistency checks are normally done with >> > KASSERT() and enabled for DEBUG (INVARIANTS or harder) configurations. >> > We only leave explicit panics in the production kernels when there >> > continuation of operations is worse then abort, e.g. when UFS detects >> > the metadata corruption. >> >> An always-on assert construct would be precisely for the latter >> scenario. Instead, we litter the tree with "if (!invariant) { >> panic(); }." > We do > > #ifdef INVARIANTS > if (!condition) panic(); > #endif > > I do not understand what do you mean by 'instead'.
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