From 742ae1e35b038ed65ddd86182723441ea74db765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:39:34 +1000 Subject: xfs: introduce CONFIG_XFS_WARN Running a CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG kernel in production environments is not the best idea as it introduces significant overhead, can change the behaviour of algorithms (such as allocation) to improve test coverage, and (most importantly) panic the machine on non-fatal errors. There are many cases where all we want to do is run a kernel with more bounds checking enabled, such as is provided by the ASSERT() statements throughout the code, but without all the potential overhead and drawbacks. This patch converts all the ASSERT statements to evaluate as WARN_ON(1) statements and hence if they fail dump a warning and a stack trace to the log. This has minimal overhead and does not change any algorithms, and will allow us to find strange "out of bounds" problems more easily on production machines. There are a few places where assert statements contain debug only code. These are converted to be debug-or-warn only code so that we still get all the assert checks in the code. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Brian Foster Signed-off-by: Ben Myers --- fs/xfs/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/xfs/Kconfig') diff --git a/fs/xfs/Kconfig b/fs/xfs/Kconfig index cc33aaf..399e8ce 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/xfs/Kconfig @@ -69,6 +69,19 @@ config XFS_RT If unsure, say N. +config XFS_WARN + bool "XFS Verbose Warnings" + depends on XFS_FS && !XFS_DEBUG + help + Say Y here to get an XFS build with many additional warnings. + It converts ASSERT checks to WARN, so will log any out-of-bounds + conditions that occur that would otherwise be missed. It is much + lighter weight than XFS_DEBUG and does not modify algorithms and will + not cause the kernel to panic on non-fatal errors. + + However, similar to XFS_DEBUG, it is only advisable to use this if you + are debugging a particular problem. + config XFS_DEBUG bool "XFS Debugging support" depends on XFS_FS -- cgit v1.1