On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:06:25 -0800,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote:
>What I'd like is a debugging function `can_sleep()'. This
>is good for documentary purposes, and will catch bugs.
>
>So kmalloc() would gain:
>
> if (gfp_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
> can_sleep();
can_sleep_if(gfp_flags & __GFP_WAIT) would be better. can_sleep_if()
is
do { } while(0)
for no debugging, for debugging it is
if (unlikely(condition)) {
whine(__stringify(condition))
}
One line instead of two, no references to variables when debugging is
off, automatically adds unlikely.
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