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Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi/watchdog: Use nmi_panic() when kernel panics in NMI handler

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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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[PATCH 2/3] ipmi/watchdog: Use nmi_panic() when kernel panics in  NMI handler Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> - 2016-03-01 03:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi/watchdog: Use nmi_panic() when kernel panics in  NMI handler Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-03-01 04:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi/watchdog: Use nmi_panic() when kernel panics in  NMI handler Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> - 2016-03-01 04:40 +0100
    RE: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi/watchdog: Use nmi_panic() when kernel panics  in NMI handler 河合英宏 / KAWAI，HIDEHIRO   <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> - 2016-03-01 05:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi/watchdog: Use nmi_panic() when kernel panics in  NMI handler Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-03-01 06:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi/watchdog: Use nmi_panic() when kernel panics in  NMI handler Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-03-01 10:00 +0100

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