Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] xen/granttable: Grant tables V2 implementation

[annie li <annie.li@oracle.com>]

On 2011-11-19 2:05, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> So we have two candidates:
>> xen_raw_printk + panic
>> panic + earlyprintk=xen
>>
>> If panic does work with earlyprintk, then the latter one is better.
>> Otherwise, there will be duplicated string printed out with
>> 'earlyprintk=xen'.
>>     
>
> The idea is just to have one function. Whichever prints the
> string and panics the machine. If 'panic' does this properly
> (and properly meaning it actually prints data when using
> the earlyprintk=xen as well as console=hvc0) printout system
> the we cuold just use 'panic' and not worry about it.
>
>   
Ok.
> But if it does not, then we (and by we I mean you) should 
> provide a variant of panic() that prints the data properly using the 
> earlprintk mechanism. Preferrabily to make it generic.
>   
So this work depends on whether panic works well with earlyprink=xen, I 
will do some test on panic first.

Thanks
Annie