The patch titled Subject: panic-use-atomic_try_cmpxchg-in-panic-and-nmi_panic-v2 has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is panic-use-atomic_try_cmpxchg-in-panic-and-nmi_panic-v2.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/panic-use-atomic_try_cmpxchg-in-panic-and-nmi_panic-v2.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: panic-use-atomic_try_cmpxchg-in-panic-and-nmi_panic-v2 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 21:11:28 +0200 clean up if/else block Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230906191200.68707-1-ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/panic.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/panic.c~panic-use-atomic_try_cmpxchg-in-panic-and-nmi_panic-v2 +++ a/kernel/panic.c @@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...) this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); /* atomic_try_cmpxchg updates old_cpu on failure */ - if (atomic_try_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, &old_cpu, this_cpu)) - ; - else if (old_cpu != this_cpu) + if (atomic_try_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, &old_cpu, this_cpu)) { + /* go ahead */ + } else if (old_cpu != this_cpu) panic_smp_self_stop(); console_verbose(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx are mm-vmstat-use-this_cpu_try_cmpxchg-in-mod_zonenode_state.patch panic-use-atomic_try_cmpxchg-in-panic-and-nmi_panic.patch panic-use-atomic_try_cmpxchg-in-panic-and-nmi_panic-v2.patch