On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:55:14PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I ran lkdtm by panic'ing in the interrupt handle thus leaving device > > interrupt un-ack'd and the apic might have been un-ack'd too (jprobes > > hooked in at do_IRQ). 3 out 3 times the second kernel came up on my core2 > > quad. > > That sounds like more than enough basic testing for me. Document your > testing in a patch description and let's get the unnecessary local apic > and ioapic stomping removed from the kexec on panic path. > > There were bugs. We deleted the code that had them. The bugs are gone > and there are no new problems goes over very well in my book. Great. Thanks. I'll put together the patch. Cheers, Don