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

* 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.

Ingo
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