Re: [PATCH] panic: add support to update panic_timeout via DT

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Fri Oct 27 2017 - 04:00:12 EST


On (10/27/17 09:27), Jeetesh Burman wrote:
> Add support to set 'panic_timeout' value via dtb to have
> control from device tree. This makes sense when you have
> multiple platforms support from same defconfig and
> differentiated only through device tree blob.
> The patch will check for panic time out value coming
> from dtb if it exists, otherwise continues with
> defconfig provided option.

*my personal opinion* - I'm not super happy to see more and more
of_find_node_by_name()'s in random places. but that's just IMHO.

> static int init_oops_id(void)
> {
> + struct device_node *np;
> +
> + np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "panic_timeout");
> + if (np)
> + of_property_read_u32(np, "panic-timeout-value", &panic_timeout);
> +
> if (!oops_id)
> get_random_bytes(&oops_id, sizeof(oops_id));
> else

why init_oops_id()? you are going to re-read it every time you call
print_oops_end_marker(), and the system can be configured not to
panic on oops. put it to oops_setup()? or, at least, move it to
`if (!oops_id)' branch, maybe?

-ss