Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:38:57 +0530 (IST) | From | Satyam Sharma <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid pointless WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()) from panic codepath |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > Badness at arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:202 > > comes when smp_call_function_map() has been called with irqs disabled, > which is illegal. However, there is a special case, the panic() codepath, > when we do not want to warn about this -- warning at that time is pointless > anyway, and only serves to scroll away the *real* cause of the panic and > distracts from the real bug.
BTW arch/ppc/ has same issue, but that's gonna be removed by next year anyways, so I think there's no point making a patch for that (?) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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