Re: [PATCH 5/9] x86/dumpstack: Improve opcodes dumping in the Code: section

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:49 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Make it read the whole buffer of code_bytes size in one go. By default
> use a statically allocated 64 bytes buffer. If "code_bytes=" is supplied
> on the cmdline a new buffer gets allocated.

Are these always serialized? For oopses, I think we end up serializing
with die_lock, but is that always the case?

Maybe at least a comment about why a static allocation is ok?

             Linus