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

[Mike Strosaker]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> We have the panic_notifier_list in there.  Cannot you hook into that?

panic_notifier_list is not used becasue we need to ensure that the
actions in machine_panic are the last ones taken.  machine_panic may
not return (in the ppc64 case, it calls a firmware routine which does
not return), so any other actions on the list need to be taken first.

Thanks,
Mike
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