On 08/15/2018 12:54 PM, Patrick Bellasi wrote:

On 15-Aug 11:37, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:

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On 08/14/2018 06:49 PM, Patrick Bellasi wrote:

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Hi Dietmar!

On 14-Aug 17:44, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:

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On 08/06/2018 06:39 PM, Patrick Bellasi wrote:

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If this is only for testing/debugging, I would suggest a simple one line
BUG_ON()

These are (eventually) considered as recoverable errors... thus,
AFAIK, using BUG_ON is overkilling and discouraged:
   https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/asm-generic/bug.h#L42

Not sure about that. If this refcounting is out of sync, that's 
indicating a serious issue here for me which should be fixed.

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You find CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y in production kernels as well.

AFAIK, that setting is discouraged for production kernels...
Moreover, it's still better to WARN sometimes on a production kernel
the crash the device, isnt't it?

IMHO, if this is something which should not happen at all, a BUG_ON() is 
the right thing to do here. And you get the call stack to investigate 
why it hit.