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* [RFC][PATCH v2 -next 1/2] Move kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) below smp_send_stop()
@ 2011-10-21 21:20 Seiji Aguchi
  2011-10-28 18:27 ` Don Zickus
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Seiji Aguchi @ 2011-10-21 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Chen, Gong, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Luck, Tony, Matthew Garrett, Vivek Goyal, len.brown@intel.com,
	ying.huang@intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com, hughd@chromium.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, jmorris@namei.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	namhyung@gmail.com, Don Zickus
  Cc: dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net, Satoru Moriya

This patch is just moving kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) below smp_send_stop
for serializing logging process via smp_send_stop.

 Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>

---
 kernel/panic.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index d7bb697..41bf6ad 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 	 */
 	crash_kexec(NULL);
 
-	kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC);
-
 	/*
 	 * Note smp_send_stop is the usual smp shutdown function, which
 	 * unfortunately means it may not be hardened to work in a panic
@@ -97,6 +95,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 	 */
 	smp_send_stop();
 
+	kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC);
+
 	atomic_notifier_call_chain(&panic_notifier_list, 0, buf);
 
 	bust_spinlocks(0);
-- 1.7.1

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* Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 -next 1/2] Move kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) below smp_send_stop()
  2011-10-21 21:20 [RFC][PATCH v2 -next 1/2] Move kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) below smp_send_stop() Seiji Aguchi
@ 2011-10-28 18:27 ` Don Zickus
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Don Zickus @ 2011-10-28 18:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Seiji Aguchi
  Cc: Andrew Morton, Chen, Gong, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Luck, Tony, Matthew Garrett, Vivek Goyal, len.brown@intel.com,
	ying.huang@intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com, hughd@chromium.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, jmorris@namei.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	namhyung@gmail.com, dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Satoru Moriya

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 05:20:07PM -0400, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
> This patch is just moving kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) below smp_send_stop
> for serializing logging process via smp_send_stop.

I feel it is good to always serialize the logging when we are panic'ing.
So this patch is a step in the right direction.

Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>

> 
>  Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
> 
> ---
>  kernel/panic.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
> index d7bb697..41bf6ad 100644
> --- a/kernel/panic.c
> +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
>  	 */
>  	crash_kexec(NULL);
>  
> -	kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC);
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * Note smp_send_stop is the usual smp shutdown function, which
>  	 * unfortunately means it may not be hardened to work in a panic
> @@ -97,6 +95,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
>  	 */
>  	smp_send_stop();
>  
> +	kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC);
> +
>  	atomic_notifier_call_chain(&panic_notifier_list, 0, buf);
>  
>  	bust_spinlocks(0);
> -- 1.7.1

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