[PATCH v8] kernel, add panic_on_warn

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On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 01:57:36PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:

[..]
> You see that doing
> 
> 	if (panic_on_warn) {
> 		panic_on_warn = 0;
> 		panic(...);
> 	}
> 
> is racy, I hope.  If two threads WARN() at the same time, then there's 
> nothing preventing a double panic() because WARN() itself is not 
> serialized against anything.  So both the current comment and your 
> suggested revision comment are bogus.

panic() is serialized on panic_lock. So I guess it is fine to hit WARN()
on multiple cpus. Do you see an issue there?

Thanks
Vivek



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