From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hpe.com>,
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>, Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi/watchdog: Use nmi_panic() when kernel panics in NMI handler
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:56:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D504D2.3070701@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160301015039.4318.58063.stgit@softrs>
On 02/29/2016 05:50 PM, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> commit 58c5661f2144 ("panic, x86: Allow CPUs to save registers even
> if looping in NMI context") introduced nmi_panic() which prevents
> concurrent/recursive execution of panic(). It also saves registers
> for the crash dump on x86.
>
> ipmi_watchdog driver can call panic() from NMI handler, so replace
> it with nmi_panic().
>
> Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
> Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> ---
> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
> index 096f0ce..4facc75 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
> @@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ ipmi_nmi(unsigned int val, struct pt_regs *regs)
> the timer. So do so. */
> pretimeout_since_last_heartbeat = 1;
> if (atomic_inc_and_test(&preop_panic_excl))
> - panic(PFX "pre-timeout");
> + nmi_panic(regs, PFX "pre-timeout");
> }
>
> return NMI_HANDLED;
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-01 2:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-01 1:50 [PATCH 0/3] Use nmi_panic() in panic on NMI case Hidehiro Kawai
2016-03-01 1:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] panic: Export panic_cpu and nmi_panic_self_stop Hidehiro Kawai
2016-03-01 7:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-03-01 7:48 ` 河合英宏 / KAWAI，HIDEHIRO
2016-03-01 8:49 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-01 1:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] ipmi/watchdog: Use nmi_panic() when kernel panics in NMI handler Hidehiro Kawai
2016-03-01 2:30 ` Corey Minyard
2016-03-01 4:23 ` 河合英宏 / KAWAI，HIDEHIRO
2016-03-01 5:12 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-03-01 2:56 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2016-03-01 8:50 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-01 1:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] hpwdt: " Hidehiro Kawai
2016-03-01 2:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-03-01 3:54 ` 河合英宏 / KAWAI，HIDEHIRO
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