linux-kernel - RE: [V4 PATCH 1/4] panic/x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI

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Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2015 01:02:08 +0000
From:	河合英宏 / KAWAI，HIDEHIRO 
	<hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>
To:	"'Peter Zijlstra'" <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	平松雅巳 / HIRAMATU，MASAMI 
	<masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Subject: RE: [V4 PATCH 1/4] panic/x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic
 on NMI

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:13:55PM +0000, 河合英宏 / KAWAI，HIDEHIRO wrote:
> > Peter saids -tip tree doesn't have panic_on_unrecovered_nmi in the
> > previoius discussion, but it still exists.  So, I didn't change
> > anything about panic_on_unrecovered_nmi.
> >
> 
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
> > > @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ void unregister_nmi_handler(unsigned int type, const char *name)
> > >  #endif
> > >
> > >  	if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
> > > -		panic("NMI: Not continuing");
> > > +		nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");
> > >
> > >  	pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
> > >
> 
> I was looking at unregister_nmi_handler() because that's the function
> the diff points to. That still doesn't have panic_on_unrecovered_nmi.
> 
> It looks like your diff tool is 'broken' and generates nonsense function
> data.

I had noticed the function name is wrong, but I didn't know how
do I fix that, sorry.  Now, I updated git to the latest version
and the issue disappeared.

Regards,

Hidehiro Kawai
Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group