From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754109AbbFVQdu (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:33:50 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:37330 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753477AbbFVQdn (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:33:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:33:33 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Kees Cook , "Paul E. McKenney" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Oleg Nesterov , Denys Vlasenko , Brian Gerst , =?utf-8?B?RnLDqWTDqXJpYw==?= Weisbecker , X86 ML , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] notifiers: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die Message-ID: <20150622163333.GC20244@pd.tnic> References: <20150622113649.GB20244@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:26:13AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > notify_die is misnamed and has little to do with death. It's really > just notifying about an exception, and we might end up oopsing, > sending a signal, or neither. But if we oops and wedge solid afterwards, it might happen that only the first splat comes out on the console, no? And that will be the lockdep splat which would be useless for debugging the actual problem... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/