Re: [PATCH] conditionalize call from panic() to smp_send_stop()

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 15.01.09 04:34 >>>
>"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> ... avoiding nested warnings and/or oopses as much as possible (namely
>> durin early boot).
>
>Better would be to fix smp_send_stop than to work around it for this
>very limited case. I've been running into this with machine checks
>too. The new fancy smp_call_function() that is there now just doesn't
>work in any unusual situation like early boot or fatal exceptions,

Indeed - I wasn't used to smp_call_function...() to be generic functions
that can be fixed for all architectures at once. I simply wanted to avoid
needing individual changes in all architectures...

Jan



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