Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] notifiers: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Jun 22 2015 - 12:33:54 EST


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 09:26:13AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> notify_die is misnamed and has little to do with death. It's really
> just notifying about an exception, and we might end up oopsing,
> sending a signal, or neither.

But if we oops and wedge solid afterwards, it might happen that only the
first splat comes out on the console, no? And that will be the lockdep
splat which would be useless for debugging the actual problem...

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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