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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:16:11 +0000
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] conditionalize call from panic() to
smp_send_stop()
>>> Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> 15.01.09 04:34 >>>
>"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com> 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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