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Message-ID: <20210203194618.GJ13819@zn.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 3 Feb 2021 20:46:18 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] x86/fault: Split the OOPS code out from
 no_context()

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 11:29:39AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> That function is a lie. It tries to keep the system alive but it
> doesn’t return if it “recovers”. Maybe I should add a comment?

... or rename it?

That schedule() at the end, I dunno if that does anything since we're
going to oops anyway...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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