linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix crash_kexec

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Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:17:42 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix crash_kexec - smp_send_stop race in panic

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Ho hum, I guess we stick with the original patch.  It *should* work, as
> long as all archtectures are doing the expected thing.  But in this
> situation it is bad of us to just hope that the architectures are doing
> this.  We should go and find out, rather than waiting for bug reports
> to come in.  Especially because in this case, bugs will take a very
> long time indeed to even be noticed.
>
> One way to resolve this would be to ask the various arch maintainers!

At least we can add the spin_lock just for x86 and s390, and leave
a big comment saying we are waiting for the other arch to be fixed...

Thanks.
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