Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:17:42 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix crash_kexec - smp_send_stop race in panic | From | Américo Wang <> |
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Ho hum, I guess we stick with the original patch. It *should* work, as > long as all archtectures are doing the expected thing. But in this > situation it is bad of us to just hope that the architectures are doing > this. We should go and find out, rather than waiting for bug reports > to come in. Especially because in this case, bugs will take a very > long time indeed to even be noticed. > > One way to resolve this would be to ask the various arch maintainers!
At least we can add the spin_lock just for x86 and s390, and leave a big comment saying we are waiting for the other arch to be fixed...
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