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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.0-rc1 v17 5/6] x86/nmi: Use common printk functions
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On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 01:54 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > Much of the code sitting in arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c to support
> > safe all-cpu backtracing from NMI has been copied to printk.c to
> > make it accessible to other architectures.
> >
> > Port the x86 NMI backtrace to the generic code.
>
> Is there any difference between the generic and the x86 code as they
> stand today?

Shouldn't be any user observable change but there are some changes,
mostly due to review comments.

1. The seq_buf structures are initialized at boot and *after* they
are consumed (originally they were initialized just before use).

2. The generic code doesn't maintain an equivalent of backtrace_mask
(which was essentially a copy of cpus_online made when backtracing
was requested) and instead iterates using for_each_possible_cpu()
to initialize and dump the seq_buf:s.


Daniel.


PS
The main piece that git code motion tracking should follow if I squashed
the generic and x86 patches together would be nmi_vprintk(). I suspect
most of the rest would be missed as the code copies is in pretty small
fragments.



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