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SubjectRE: [PATCH v2] kdump: Fix crash_kexec - smp_send_stop race in panic
> Instead of introducing the panic lock, as an alternative we could move
> smp_send_stop() to the beginning of panic(). Eric told me that the
> function is currently "insufficiently reliable" for that, but perhaps we
> could make it more reliable.

That's tough to do. We are in panic because something went horribly
wrong somewhere in the kernel - so we can make few assumptions about
which subsystems are still working. In the worst case (for this example)
our panic was caused by a failure in the code that sends cross-processor
interrupts ... so calling that same code to stop the other cpus is
likely to run into the same problem - perhaps causing a nested panic.

So what looks like a good fix for some panic scenarios actually makes
others worse.

-Tony


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