Re: [PATCH] Add mem_nmi_panic enable system to panic on hard error

[Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > I could find your code in the -mm tree. It looks good :-)
> > But just one point, isn't it better to use die_nmi() instead of panic()?
> >
> > >>        if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
> > >>                panic("NMI: Not continuing");
>
>
> At the point we halt for an unrecovered NMI the call trace isnt likely
> to be interesting and the message being visible is most important. I'm
> not sure if die_nmi would be better therefore - dunno what other folks
> think ?

Indeed, that's true.
In this case of an unrecovered NMI, the call trace is useless.
Thank you for pointing it out.

H.Seto

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