From: Christian Borntraeger <linux-kernel@borntraeger.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tim Wright <timw@splhi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lmb@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] was: [RFC] removal of sync in panic
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:34:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407180934.12418.linux-kernel@borntraeger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1090090902.14032.15.camel@kryten.internal.splhi.com>
Tim Wright wrote:
> Yes, I've seen this multiple times.
> I also agree that it seems a sensible patch. I have one dumb question.
> Given that we're panicing and we know things are "bad", is there any
> reason not to call smp_send_stop() as early as possible, rather than as
> the last thing which we currently do? As you say, the other cpus are
> happily continuing, potentially destroying data, and it seems that
> stopping this as quickly as possible would be desirable.
That suggestion was my number 2 is my first mail :-)
On the other hand, if we remove the sync stuff, smp_send_stop is called
quite early. Only a printf is called before smp_send_stop().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-18 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-14 15:45 [RFC] removal of sync in panic Christian Borntraeger
2004-07-14 16:23 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-07-14 17:39 ` [PATCH] was: " Christian Borntraeger
2004-07-14 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-15 4:58 ` Christian Borntraeger
2004-07-15 5:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17 19:01 ` Tim Wright
2004-07-18 7:34 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
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2004-07-15 8:00 linux-kernel
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