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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-13 10:54:24 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-13 11:06:47 +0100 |
commit | ffd71da4e3f323b7673b061e6f7e0d0c12dc2b49 (patch) | |
tree | edebe057b20e6684ab3dac06e53050595195fa63 /kernel/panic.c | |
parent | cd80a8142efa3468c2cd9fb52845f334c3220d54 (diff) | |
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panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic
Impact: eliminate secondary warnings during panic()
We can panic() in a number of difficult, atomic contexts, hence
we use bust_spinlocks(1) in panic() to increase oops_in_progress,
which prevents various debug checks we have in place.
But in practice this protection only covers the first few printk's
done by panic() - it does not cover the later attempt to stop all
other CPUs and kexec(). If a secondary warning triggers in one of
those facilities that can make the panic message scroll off.
So do bust_spinlocks(0) only much later in panic(). (which code
is only reached if panic policy is relaxed that it can return
after a warning message)
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/panic.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/panic.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 32fe4eff1b89..57fb005de546 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...) #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE dump_stack(); #endif - bust_spinlocks(0); /* * If we have crashed and we have a crash kernel loaded let it handle @@ -136,6 +135,7 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...) mdelay(1); i++; } + bust_spinlocks(0); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic); |