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Date:   Fri, 4 Oct 2019 11:26:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
To:     Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] riscv: avoid kernel hangs when trapped in BUG()
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Vincent Chen wrote:

> When the CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG is disabled by disabling CONFIG_BUG, if a
> kernel thread is trapped by BUG(), the whole system will be in the
> loop that infinitely handles the ebreak exception instead of entering the
> die function. To fix this problem, the do_trap_break() will always call
> the die() to deal with the break exception as the type of break is
> BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>

Thanks, queued for v5.4-rc.


- Paul