From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>,
"Bryan O'Donoghue" <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>,
joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi/capsule: Make efi_capsule_pending() lockless
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 12:46:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160504114605.GH2839@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160504093031.GA4074@pd.tnic>
On Wed, 04 May, at 11:30:31AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> Hmmm, so panic() does bust_spinlocks() and efi_capsule_pending() could
> look at oops_in_progress which is set by bust_spinlocks() and that would
> probably solve the panic case but maybe the normal reboot case would
> still hang...
But emergency_restart() is called after bust_spinlocks(0) which can
reset oops_in_progress, so can't even use that to solve the panic
case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-04 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-30 22:13 [PATCH] efi/capsule: Make efi_capsule_pending() lockless Matt Fleming
2016-05-03 9:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-03 14:12 ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-04 9:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-04 11:46 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2016-05-04 12:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-04 13:36 ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-04 14:35 ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-05 14:27 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2016-05-05 14:36 ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-05 14:55 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-06 1:32 ` Bryan O'Donoghue
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