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* [PATCH] panic: call bust_spinlocks(0) before dying
@ 2009-10-02 11:41 Aaro Koskinen
  2009-10-02 12:07 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Aaro Koskinen @ 2009-10-02 11:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mingo, akpm, arjan, ak, fweisbec, linux-kernel

Commit ffd71da4e3f323b7673b061e6f7e0d0c12dc2b49 moved bust_spinlocks(0)
to the end of the function, which in practice is never reached. As a
result console_unblank() is not called, and on some systems the user
may not see the panic message.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
---
 kernel/panic.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index bcdef26..96b45d0 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 
 	atomic_notifier_call_chain(&panic_notifier_list, 0, buf);
 
+	bust_spinlocks(0);
+
 	if (!panic_blink)
 		panic_blink = no_blink;
 
@@ -136,7 +138,6 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 		mdelay(1);
 		i++;
 	}
-	bust_spinlocks(0);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic);
-- 
1.5.4.3


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