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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Jonas Jensen <jonas.jensen@gmail.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] kernel: Add support for restart notifier call chain
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:44:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140710174425.2f3fea98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53BF2CB5.5080602@roeck-us.net>

On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:15:49 -0700 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:

> Error on my part - I thought lower numbers would
> have higher priority, but after looking into the code again that
> is wrong.

You shouldn't have needed to look into the code :( Maybe a
documentation patch for notifier_block.priority for the next person?

> To avoid making things too complicated, maybe it would make sense to
> specify guidelines for notifier priorities, such as
> 0   - restart notifier of last resort, with least reset capabilities
> 128 - default; use if no other notifier is expected to be available
>        and/or if restart functionality is acceptable
> 255 - highest priority notifier which _must_ be used
> 
> Would that make sense and be acceptable ? In this context, I would then
> set the notifier priorities for the callers in the patch set to 128.

Yep, that sounds nice.  It's unlikely to see a lot of use, but at least
we showed we thought about it ;)

      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-11  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-09  3:37 [PATCH v3 0/7] kernel: Add support for restart notifier call chain Guenter Roeck
2014-07-09  3:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] " Guenter Roeck
2014-07-09  3:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] arm64: Support restart through " Guenter Roeck
2014-07-09  3:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] arm: " Guenter Roeck
2014-07-09  3:38 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] power/restart: Call machine_restart instead of arm_pm_restart Guenter Roeck
2014-07-09  3:38 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] watchdog: moxart: Register restart handler with restart notifier Guenter Roeck
2014-07-09  3:38 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] watchdog: alim7101: " Guenter Roeck
2014-07-09  3:38 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] arm/arm64: Unexport restart handlers Guenter Roeck
2014-07-10 23:09 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] kernel: Add support for restart notifier call chain Andrew Morton
2014-07-11  0:15   ` Guenter Roeck
2014-07-11  0:44     ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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