Re: allow recursive die() on i386

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 15:11, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:35:39 -0400, 
> Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >This patch allows for a recursive die() on i386.  This closely resembles
> >what is done on x86_64, fwiw.
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8-rc2/2.6.8-rc2-mm1/broken-out/make-i386-die-more-resilient-against-recursive-errors.patch
> 
> does this and more, it also guards against too many recursive calls to
> die.  The patch is already in Andrew's tree.
+	static struct {
+		spinlock_t lock;
+		u32 lock_owner;
+		int lock_owner_depth;
+	} die = {
+		.lock =			SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED,
+		.lock_owner =		-1,
+		.lock_owner_depth =	0
+	};


humm... am I the only one who considers this a little bit ugly ???

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