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SubjectRe: [3/4] [PATCH]Diskdump - yet another crash dump function
Hello,

Takao Indoh wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:11:40 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>
>>* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>* Takao Indoh <indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>It sounds good because change of timer/tasklet code is not needed.
>>>>But, I wonder whether this method is safe. For example, if kernel
>>>>crashes because of problem of timer, clearing lists may be dangerous
>>>>before dumping. Is it possible to clear all timer lists safely?
>>>
>>>yes it can be done safely - just INIT_LIST_HEAD() all the timer list
>>>heads - like init_timers_cpu() does.
>>
>>obviously this only involves the dumping CPU - no other CPU will run any
>>kernel code. On SMP you should also clear the timer spinlock of the
>>dumping CPU's timer base, if the crash happened within the timer code.
>>
>> Ingo
>
>
>
> How about this?
>
> void clear_timers(void)
> {
> int j;
> tvec_base_t *base;
>
> base = &per_cpu(tvec_bases, smp_processor_id());
> spin_lock_init(&base->lock);
> for (j = 0; j < TVN_SIZE; j++) {
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(base->tv5.vec + j);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(base->tv4.vec + j);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(base->tv3.vec + j);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(base->tv2.vec + j);
> }
> for (j = 0; j < TVR_SIZE; j++)
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(base->tv1.vec + j);
>
> base->timer_jiffies = jiffies;
> }

I think you should save original values to somewhere else, so you can
refer these values from vmcore if you want.
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