From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261991AbUBWSdd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:33:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261995AbUBWSdd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:33:33 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.130]:61667 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261991AbUBWSd0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:33:26 -0500 Message-ID: <403A4765.8010908@austin.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:33:09 -0600 From: Mike Strosaker Reply-To: strosake@austin.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch-specific callout in panic() References: <40398BFE.1040300@austin.ibm.com> <20040222213438.7682ff7b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040222213438.7682ff7b.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > We have the panic_notifier_list in there. Cannot you hook into that? > panic_notifier_list is not used becasue we need to ensure that the actions in machine_panic are the last ones taken. machine_panic may not return (in the ppc64 case, it calls a firmware routine which does not return), so any other actions on the list need to be taken first. Thanks, Mike