linux-kernel - Re: [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointlessWARN

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Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:14:03 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointlessWARN_ON()s

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:

> I also changed all of panic() to be covered by oops_in_progress 
> - see the other commit. Eric: that should make kexec [a tiny 
> bit] more robust too, agreed?

A tad.  We shouldn't have any printk's on that path.  But if we
do it will keep us from wedging and getting ourselves into trouble.

Eric
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