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
