Re: [V2 PATCH 1/3] x86/panic: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Jul 28 2015 - 04:01:16 EST


On Tue 28-07-15 11:02:11, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
[...]
> > Something like
> [...]
> > +void nmi_panic(const char *fmt, ...)
>
> Since we can't directly pass variable arguments to a subroutine,

Sure, I was just too lazy to finish this as it was just an illustration
of the idea.

> we have to use a macro or do like this:
>
> void nmi_panic(const char *msg)
> {
> ...
> panic("%s", msg);
> }
>
> If there is no objection, I'm going to use a macro.

Your other patch needs panic_cpu externally visible so the macro should
be OK.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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