linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [1/2] Add a SYSTEM

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20080903194449.GW18288@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:44:49 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] Add a SYSTEM_PANIC state

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:32:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:16:51 +0200
> Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:04:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue,  2 Sep 2008 15:49:22 +0200 (CEST)
> > > Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > --- linux.orig/include/linux/kernel.h
> > > > +++ linux/include/linux/kernel.h
> > > > @@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ extern enum system_states {
> > > >  	SYSTEM_POWER_OFF,
> > > >  	SYSTEM_RESTART,
> > > >  	SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK,
> > > > +	SYSTEM_PANIC,
> > > >  } system_state;
> > > 
> > > system_state is such a crock.  I wonder what other random code all over
> > > the place is looking at system_state and will get unexpectedly broken
> > > by other "unrelated" changes such as this..
> > 
> > >From a quick grep none.
> > 
> > Also I think it's a natural extension.
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It's not a heck of a lot nicer, but we could do this:
> > 
> > Sorry but I think it's far worse. How do you think it's
> > better?
> > 
> 
> For the reason which I stated and which you carefully deleted prior to
> asking my reason.

You mean " This has the
advantage of not introducing any additional global states and is a bit
more logical, I think." ?

Seems dodgy to me but ok. Also I think personally SYSTEM_PANIC 
is more logical than making oops_in_progress stand for panic too.

Anyways it's moot because it looks like smp_call_function is not
easily salavagable for panic anyways.

-Andi

-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/