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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	jbeulich@novell.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:core/ipi] panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:36:35 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-ffd71da4e3f323b7673b061e6f7e0d0c12dc2b49@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>

Commit-ID:  ffd71da4e3f323b7673b061e6f7e0d0c12dc2b49
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ffd71da4e3f323b7673b061e6f7e0d0c12dc2b49
Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
AuthorDate: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:54:24 +0100
Commit:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:06:47 +0100

panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic

Impact: eliminate secondary warnings during panic()

We can panic() in a number of difficult, atomic contexts, hence
we use bust_spinlocks(1) in panic() to increase oops_in_progress,
which prevents various debug checks we have in place.

But in practice this protection only covers the first few printk's
done by panic() - it does not cover the later attempt to stop all
other CPUs and kexec(). If a secondary warning triggers in one of
those facilities that can make the panic message scroll off.

So do bust_spinlocks(0) only much later in panic(). (which code
is only reached if panic policy is relaxed that it can return
after a warning message)

Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
 kernel/panic.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 32fe4ef..57fb005 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
 	dump_stack();
 #endif
-	bust_spinlocks(0);
 
 	/*
 	 * If we have crashed and we have a crash kernel loaded let it handle
@@ -136,6 +135,7 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
 		mdelay(1);
 		i++;
 	}
+	bust_spinlocks(0);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic);

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12 13:21 [PATCH, resend] eliminate spurious pointless WARN_ON()s Jan Beulich
2009-03-12 13:48 ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-13  8:52   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-13  1:39 ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: " Jan Beulich
2009-03-13  8:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-13  9:21     ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointlessWARN_ON()s Jan Beulich
2009-03-13  9:43       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-13 10:38         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-19 22:14           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-20  8:52             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-20  9:58               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-20 18:24                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-20 18:52                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-20 19:34                     ` cpu hotplug and lockdep (was: Re: [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointlessWARN_ON()s) Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-21  7:39                       ` [PATCH 0/2] sysctl: lockdep support Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-21  7:40                         ` [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: Don't take the use count of multiple heads at a time Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-21  7:42                           ` [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: lockdep support for sysctl reference counting Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-30 22:26                             ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-30 22:53                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-30 23:18                                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-30 23:50                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-31  8:10                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31  8:47                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-31  8:17                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31 13:40                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-31 15:35                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31 22:44                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-04-10  9:18                             ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-20 23:40                     ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointlessWARN_ON()s Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-21 10:20                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-13  9:31     ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointless WARN_ON()s Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 10:36 ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate WARN_ON()s during oops/panic Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 10:36 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-13 10:36 ` [tip:core/ipi] panic, smp: provide smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 10:36 ` [tip:core/ipi] panic: clean up kernel/panic.c Ingo Molnar

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