From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/13] EDAC/altera: Skip the panic notifier if kdump is loaded
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 19:31:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yv0mCY04heUXsGiC@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220719195325.402745-11-gpiccoli@igalia.com>
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 04:53:23PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> The altera_edac panic notifier performs some data collection with
> regards errors detected; such code relies in the regmap layer to
> perform reads/writes, so the code is abstracted and there is some
> risk level to execute that, since the panic path runs in atomic
> context, with interrupts/preemption and secondary CPUs disabled.
>
> Users want the information collected in this panic notifier though,
> so in order to balance the risk/benefit, let's skip the altera panic
> notifier if kdump is loaded. While at it, remove a useless header
> and encompass a macro inside the sole ifdef block it is used.
How does the fact that kdump is loaded, obviate the need to print
information about the errors?
Are you suggesting that people who have the whole vmcore would be able
to piece together the error information?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-17 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-19 19:53 [PATCH v2 00/13] The panic notifiers refactor strikes back - fixes/clean-ups Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-07-19 19:53 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] EDAC/altera: Skip the panic notifier if kdump is loaded Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-08-07 15:48 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-08-16 18:44 ` Dinh Nguyen
2022-08-16 20:16 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-08-17 17:31 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2022-08-17 18:45 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-08-17 19:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-17 20:28 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-08-17 21:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-17 21:39 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-08-17 21:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-17 21:56 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-08-17 22:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-17 22:09 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-08-17 22:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-17 22:49 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
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