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Re: [PATCH 21/30] panic: Introduce the panic pre-reboot notifier list



On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 3:55 PM Guilherme G. Piccoli
<gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch renames the panic_notifier_list to panic_pre_reboot_list;
> the idea is that a subsequent patch will refactor the panic path
> in order to better split the notifiers, running some of them very
> early, some of them not so early [but still before kmsg_dump()] and
> finally, the rest should execute late, after kdump. The latter ones
> are now in the panic pre-reboot list - the name comes from the idea
> that these notifiers execute before panic() attempts rebooting the
> machine (if that option is set).
>
> We also took the opportunity to clean-up useless header inclusions,
> improve some notifier block declarations (e.g. in ibmasm/heartbeat.c)
> and more important, change some priorities - we hereby set 2 notifiers
> to run late in the list [iss_panic_event() and the IPMI panic_event()]
> due to the risks they offer (may not return, for example).
> Proper documentation is going to be provided in a subsequent patch,
> that effectively refactors the panic path.

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>  arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/setup.c     |  4 ++--For xtensa:

For xtensa:
Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max



 


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