kasserts behind invariants
Alfred Perlstein
bright at mu.org
Fri Dec 13 22:43:49 UTC 2013
On 12/13/13 1:50 PM, Sean Bruno wrote:
> I guess this may have been argued before, but I don't see why we would
> want to hide specific things like: sys/kern/subr_lock.c
>
> /* Check for double-init and zero object. */
> KASSERT(!lock_initalized(lock), ("lock \"%s\" %p already initialized",
> name, lock));
>
> If I hadn't completely missed the fact that I had INVARIANTS activated,
> I'd never have found out why this vendor driver was being so completely
> stupid and crashing my machine.
>
> If I find things like this that I want old KASSERT behavior on (panic if
> true) and I don't want to run INVARIANTS, is that possible?
I don't understand the question, do you want to move it from INVARIANTS
to under just a plain if(condition)?
-Alfred
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