[PATCH] Move BUG/BUG_ON/WARN_ON to asm headers
This patch moves the definitions of BUG, BUG_ON and WARN_ON from <linux/kernel.h> to <asm/bug.h> (which <linux/kernel.h> includes), and supplies a new implementation for PPC which uses a conditional trap instruction for BUG_ON and WARN_ON, thus avoiding a conditional branch. This patch trims over 50kB from the size of the kernel that I use on powermacs. With this patch, on PPC we have a __bug_table section in the vmlinux binary, and also in modules if they use BUG, BUG_ON or WARN_ON. The __bug_table section has one entry for each BUG/BUG_ON/WARN_ON, giving the address of the trap instruction and the corresponding line number, filename and function name. This information is used in the exception handler for the exception that the trap instruction produces. The arch-specific module code handles the __bug_table section so that BUG/BUG_ON/WARN_ON work correctly in modules. Several architecture maintainers have acked this change. It should be completely benign for all of the other architectures (though they may decide to do something similar if they have a conditional trap instruction available).
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