linux-kernel - [PATCH] move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:15:11 +0100
From:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code


The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code.
Update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt       |    5 +++++
 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt |    5 -----
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c               |   10 ----------
 kernel/panic.c                            |   10 ++++++++++
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.38.rc.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ linux-2.6.38.rc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1805,6 +1805,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
 				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
 				CPU specific event set.
 
+	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
+			but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
+			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
+			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
+
 	OSS		[HW,OSS]
 			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
 
--- linux-2.6.38.rc.orig/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ linux-2.6.38.rc/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -293,11 +293,6 @@ IOMMU (input/output memory management un
 
 Debugging
 
-  oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
-		but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
-		This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
-		Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
-
   kstack=N	Print N words from the kernel stack in oops dumps.
 
   pagefaulttrace  Dump all page faults. Only useful for extreme debugging
--- linux-2.6.38.rc.orig/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ linux-2.6.38.rc/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -345,16 +345,6 @@ die_nmi(char *str, struct pt_regs *regs,
 	do_exit(SIGBUS);
 }
 
-static int __init oops_setup(char *s)
-{
-	if (!s)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	if (!strcmp(s, "panic"))
-		panic_on_oops = 1;
-	return 0;
-}
-early_param("oops", oops_setup);
-
 static int __init kstack_setup(char *s)
 {
 	if (!s)
--- linux-2.6.38.rc.orig/kernel/panic.c
+++ linux-2.6.38.rc/kernel/panic.c
@@ -433,3 +433,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_fail);
 
 core_param(panic, panic_timeout, int, 0644);
 core_param(pause_on_oops, pause_on_oops, int, 0644);
+
+static int __init oops_setup(char *s)
+{
+	if (!s)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!strcmp(s, "panic"))
+		panic_on_oops = 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("oops", oops_setup);
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