Re: [PATCH v2] panic: setup panic_timeout early

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* 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>
> ---
> 
[...]
>
> diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
> index b6c482c..d865263 100644
> --- a/kernel/panic.c
> +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -468,9 +468,23 @@ 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 *val)
> +{
> +	long timeout;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = kstrtol(val, 0, &timeout);
> +	if (ret < 0)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	panic_timeout = timeout;
> +	return 0;
> +}

I think the type of the 'timeout' local variable should match the type of 
'panic_timeout' (which is 'int', not 'long').

Thanks,

	Ingo