Re: [V5 PATCH 2/4] panic/x86: Allow cpus to save registers even if they are looping in NMI context

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:48:53AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> > +	 */
> > +	while (!raw_spin_trylock(&nmi_reason_lock))
> > +		poll_crash_ipi_and_callback(regs);
> 
> Waaait a minute: so if we're getting NMIs broadcasted on every core but
> we're *not* crash dumping, we will run into here too. This can't be
> right. :-\

This only does something if crash_ipi_done is set, which means you are killing
the box. But perhaps a comment that states that here would be useful, or maybe
just put in the check here. There's no need to make it depend on SMP, as
raw_spin_trylock() will turn to just ({1}) for UP, and that code wont even be
hit.

-- Steve

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