[Cake] cake infinite loop(?) with hfsc on one-armed router

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Sun Jan 6 15:55:07 EST 2019


Pete Heist <pete at heistp.net> writes:

>> On Jan 5, 2019, at 11:27 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> Pete Heist <pete at heistp.net> writes:
>> 
>>>> On Jan 5, 2019, at 9:10 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Well, it's the same WARN_ON(), and if that patch had been applied,
>>>> debugging our issue would have been a lot harder, I think.
>>> 
>>> Yikes, this is what I mean. I’d rather suffer the warning than be
>>> troubleshooting flaky behavior. That patch is applied in the latest
>>> kernel, so hopefully it’s the right thing.
>> 
>> Well, if it causes false positives, getting rid of it is probably worth
>> it just to avoid spurious bug reports :)
>
> If it helps finds bugs, I’d rather know about it.
>
> But, a warning once in a while might have been better than a repeated
> one that sometimes makes a hard reboot necessary, causing need for a
> manual, offline fsck in order to boot again. Just sayin’… ;)

Yes, that is why WARN_ON tends to be frowned upon ;)

-Toke


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