Re: [PATCH 1/3] panic: setup panic_timeout early

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Otherwise we might not reboot when the user needs it the most (early
> >> on).
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  kernel/panic.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
> >>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
> >> index b6c482c..46e37ff 100644
> >> --- a/kernel/panic.c
> >> +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> >> @@ -468,9 +468,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_fail);
> >>
> >>  #endif
> >>
> >> -core_param(panic, panic_timeout, int, 0644);
> >>  core_param(pause_on_oops, pause_on_oops, int, 0644);
> >>
> >> +static int __init set_panic_timeout(char *str)
> >> +{
> >> +     int timeout;
> >> +
> >> +     if (!get_option(&str, &timeout))
> >> +             return -EINVAL;
> >> +
> >> +     panic_timeout = timeout;
> >> +     return 0;
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +early_param("panic_timeout", set_panic_timeout);
> >> +
> >
> > For simple integer parameters simple_strtol() is better and (a tiny bit)
> > faster.
> 
> simple_strtol() is deprecated in favor of kstrtol().

Yes, true - my main point is that get_option() isn't the right choice 
here, you need to use a single-integer parsing function.

Thanks,

	Ingo