Re: [PATCH] lib/bug: make panic_on_warn available for all architectures

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jan 26 2016 - 18:14:15 EST


On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:12:16 +0100 Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Christian Borntraeger reported that panic_on_warn doesn't have any
> effect on s390.
>
> The panic_on_warn feature was introduced with 9e3961a09798 ("kernel:
> add panic_on_warn"). However it did care only for the case when
> WANT_WARN_ON_SLOWPATH is defined. This is turn is only the case for
> architectures which do not have an own __WARN_TAINT defined.
>
> Other architectures which do have __WARN_TAINT defined call
> report_bug() for warnings within lib/bug.c which does not call panic()
> in case panic_on_warn is set.
>
> Let's simply enable the panic_on_warn feature by adding the same code
> like it was added to warn_slowpath_common() in panic.c.
>
> This enables panic_on_warn also for arm64, parisc, powerpc, s390 and
> sh.
>

It's a bit sad to do this in two places. You couldn't find a suitable
place which is effective for all architectures?