On 11/06/2014 05:07 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > 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? Oops -- didn't see this until just now. Once again, Vivek beat me to the punch :) and much more succinctly than I will ever be able to do. :) P. > > Thanks > Vivek >