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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 19:31:53 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com> Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bhe@...hat.com, pmladek@...e.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, kernel-dev@...lia.com, kernel@...ccoli.net, halves@...onical.com, fabiomirmar@...il.com, alejandro.j.jimenez@...cle.com, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, arnd@...db.de, corbet@....net, d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, dyoung@...hat.com, feng.tang@...el.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, mikelley@...rosoft.com, hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com, jgross@...e.com, john.ogness@...utronix.de, keescook@...omium.org, luto@...nel.org, mhiramat@...nel.org, mingo@...hat.com, paulmck@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, senozhatsky@...omium.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu, tglx@...utronix.de, vgoyal@...hat.com, vkuznets@...hat.com, will@...nel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/13] EDAC/altera: Skip the panic notifier if kdump is loaded On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 04:53:23PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: > The altera_edac panic notifier performs some data collection with > regards errors detected; such code relies in the regmap layer to > perform reads/writes, so the code is abstracted and there is some > risk level to execute that, since the panic path runs in atomic > context, with interrupts/preemption and secondary CPUs disabled. > > Users want the information collected in this panic notifier though, > so in order to balance the risk/benefit, let's skip the altera panic > notifier if kdump is loaded. While at it, remove a useless header > and encompass a macro inside the sole ifdef block it is used. How does the fact that kdump is loaded, obviate the need to print information about the errors? Are you suggesting that people who have the whole vmcore would be able to piece together the error information? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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