Re: [tip:core/debug] kdump: Execute kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC)after smp_send_stop()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri May 18 2012 - 07:27:07 EST


On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 03:49 -0700, tip-bot for Seiji Aguchi wrote:

> kdump: Execute kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) after smp_send_stop()
>
> This patch moves kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) below smp_send_stop(),
> to serialize the crash-logging process via smp_send_stop() and to
> thus retrieve a more stable crash image of all CPUs stopped.

I don't want to be a spoil sport or anything, but this patch doesn't
move anything, it just removes..

> ---
> kernel/panic.c | 2 --
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
> index b6215b7..d4f0b61 100644
> --- a/kernel/panic.c
> +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -108,8 +108,6 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
> */
> crash_kexec(NULL);
>
> - kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC);
> -
> /*
> * Note smp_send_stop is the usual smp shutdown function, which
> * unfortunately means it may not be hardened to work in a panic


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