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From: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add mem_nmi_panic enable system to panic on hard error
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:53:49 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A0CCAD.2030903@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1134558344.25663.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:
>>I could find your code in the -mm tree. It looks good :-)
>>But just one point, isn't it better to use die_nmi() instead of panic()?
>>
>> >>        if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
>> >>                panic("NMI: Not continuing");
> 
> 
> At the point we halt for an unrecovered NMI the call trace isnt likely
> to be interesting and the message being visible is most important. I'm
> not sure if die_nmi would be better therefore - dunno what other folks
> think ?

Indeed, that's true.
In this case of an unrecovered NMI, the call trace is useless.
Thank you for pointing it out.

H.Seto


      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-15  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-13  6:38 [PATCH] Add mem_nmi_panic enable system to panic on hard error Hidetoshi Seto
2005-12-13  6:48 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-13  8:56   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-12-13 12:23   ` Alan Cox
2005-12-14  8:49     ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-12-14 11:05       ` Alan Cox
2005-12-15  1:53         ` Hidetoshi Seto [this message]

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