Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756458Ab1E0RDr (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2011 13:03:47 -0400 Received: from e28smtp04.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.4]:48014 "EHLO e28smtp04.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756183Ab1E0RDn (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2011 13:03:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 22:33:31 +0530 From: "K.Prasad" To: Vivek Goyal Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andi Kleen , "Luck, Tony" , kexec@lists.infradead.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , anderson@redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 4/6] PANIC_MCE: Introduce a new panic flag for fatal MCE, capture related information Message-ID: <20110527170331.GD2384@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20110526170722.GB23266@in.ibm.com> <20110526171521.GD17988@in.ibm.com> <20110526184350.GE29496@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110526184350.GE29496@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1907 Lines: 50 On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:43:50PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:45:21PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > > [..] > > Index: linux-2.6.slim_kdump/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c > > =================================================================== > > --- linux-2.6.slim_kdump.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c > > +++ linux-2.6.slim_kdump/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c > > @@ -258,8 +258,7 @@ static void wait_for_panic(void) > > local_irq_enable(); > > while (timeout-- > 0) > > udelay(1); > > - xpanic(PANIC_NO_KEXEC|PANIC_NO_BACKTRACE, 0, > > - "Panicing machine check CPU died"); > > + xpanic(PANIC_MCE, 0, NULL, 0, "Panicing machine check CPU died"); > > } > > > > static void mce_panic(char *msg, struct mce *final, char *exp) > > @@ -315,8 +314,8 @@ static void mce_panic(char *msg, struct > > if (exp) > > pr_emerg(HW_ERR "Machine check: %s\n", exp); > > if (!fake_panic) { > > - xpanic(PANIC_NO_KEXEC|PANIC_NO_BACKTRACE, mce_panic_timeout, > > - msg); > > + xpanic(PANIC_MCE, mce_panic_timeout, final, > > + sizeof(struct mce), msg); > > } else > > pr_emerg(HW_ERR "Fake kernel panic: %s\n", msg); > > } > > In previous patches you introduce PANIC_NO_KEXEC and PANIC_NO_BACKTRACE. > Now in this patch you got rid of those. Are there any other users left > of PANIC_NO_BACKTRACE and PANIC_NO_EXEC? If not, then why to introduce > these to begin with. > The previous patch also converts panic to xpanic and is taken from Andi's git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6.git tree. The changes are kept as two separate patches to identify their origin. Thanks, K.Prasad -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/