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. Thanks Vivek