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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/23] Make register values available to panic notifiers
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:20:02 +0100
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Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> Wouldn't it be much easier to implement panic with an illegal op and let
> the exception handler set up the pt regs structure instead? Just like some
> architectures do that already for warnings.

No, not necessarily.  panic() is varargs.

David