RE: [PATCH] pstore: change mutex locking to spin_locks

[Luck, Tony]

> Actually it seems like most of the entry points into pstore_dumper would
> not require the fs to create a new file.  I think the exception is an
> oops.

Yup - oops is the only one where the current kernel continues - all the
others (halt, reboot, kexec, panic) lead to the termination of the
current kernel - and thus no user processes that would be able to
see the shiny new entry in the pstore file system.

-Tony
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