> "Hence, pstore calls efi_runtime_services() without using efi_rts_wq" - > that doesn't sound like optimal design to me. I would try to shove them > all through the workqueue - not have exceptions. But pstore is trying to save the last gasp dying words from a kernel that has paniced. There isn't any guarantee that work queue will run. I think it is reasonable to have some special case to make sure that we do save the information. But perhaps that special case should be to have pstore call directly into the guts of the EFI code and not worry about all these fancy switches of "mm" etc. This is true for the machine check logging case too, but the mitigation is that the details of the error persist in the machine check banks across the reset ... so all is not lost if the work queue isn't run here. -Tony ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{����*jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥