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

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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:52:05 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
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


* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:

> 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.

Ok. Baby steps are what got us from Linux 0.12 to where we are now 
so i'm content with making a tad of progress with each commit ;-)

	Ingo
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