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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ppc/crash: Reset spinlocks during crash
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On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 22:21 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> We should be able to just allocate the rtas_args on the stack, it's only
> ~80 odd bytes. And then we can use rtas_call_unlocked() which doesn't
> take the global lock.

At this point, would it be a problem using kmalloc?=20

Best regards,

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