From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <37190938-8133-aafa-ea4a-e50f574dd73b@igalia.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 17:10:06 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/30] alpha: Clean-up the panic notifier code Content-Language: en-US References: <20220427224924.592546-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com> <20220427224924.592546-11-gpiccoli@igalia.com> From: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+geert=linux-m68k.org@lists.infradead.org To: Petr Mladek Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , rth@gcc.gnu.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, bhe@redhat.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, rcu@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, x86@kernel.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com, kernel@gpiccoli.net, halves@canonical.com, fabiomirmar@gmail.com, alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, arnd@arndb.de, bp@alien8.de, corbet@lwn.net, d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dyoung@redhat.com, feng.tang@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mikelley@microsoft.com, hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, jgross@suse.com, john.ogness@linutronix.de, keescook@chromium.org, luto@kernel.org, mhiramat@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, paulmck@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, tglx@linutronix.de, vgoyal@redhat.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, will@kernel.org On 10/05/2022 11:16, Petr Mladek wrote: > [...] > Yeah, it is pretty strange behavior. > > I looked into the history. This notifier was added into the alpha code > in 2.4.0-test2pre2. In this historic code, the default panic() code > either rebooted after a timeout or ended in a infinite loop. There > was not crasdump at that times. > > The notifier allowed to change the behavior. There were 3 notifiers: > > + mips and mips64 ended with blinking in panic() > + alpha did __halt() in this srm case > > They both still do this. I guess that it is some historic behavior > that people using these architectures are used to. > > Anyway, it makes sense to do this as the last notifier after > dumping other information. > > Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek > > Best Regards, > Petr Thanks a bunch for the review - added your tag for V2 =) _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list linux-um@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um