Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx> Hidetoshi Seto wrote: > > Here is the latest updated patch. > Let me express my appreciation to Russ for all the advice > and help. > > Thanks, > H.Seto > > ----- > > Printing message to console from MCA/INIT handler is useful, > however doing oops_in_progress = 1 in them exactly makes > something in kernel wrong. Especially it sounds ugly if > system goes wrong after returning from recoverable MCA. > > This patch adds ia64_mca_printk() function that collects > messages into temporary-not-so-large message buffer during > in MCA/INIT environment and print them out later, after > returning to normal context or when handlers determine to > down the system. > > Also this print function is exported for use in extensional > MCA handler. It would be useful to describe detail about > recovery. > > NOTE: > I don't think it is sane thing if temporary message buffer > is enlarged enough to hold whole stack dumps from INIT, so > buffering is disabled during stack dump from INIT-monarch > (= default_monarch_init_process). please fix it in future. > > Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@xxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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