Re: [PATCH] arch-specific callout in panic()

[Andrew Morton]

Mike Strosaker <strosake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There are some ppc64-specific actions that should be taken upon a
>  kernel panic.  Rather than adding a new #ifdef in panic(), it seems to
>  me that it would be worthwhile to add a single callout, and move the
>  arch-specific code out to the arch subtrees.  Does this seem reasonable,
>  or should another #ifdef be added in panic() to perform the ppc64-
>  specific actions?

We have the panic_notifier_list in there.  Cannot you hook into that?
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