Re: [v2 PATCH 1/3] panic: Change nmi_panic from macro to function

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Mar 02 2016 - 08:23:04 EST


On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 02:18:24PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 02-03-16 19:36:26, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> [...]
> > +void nmi_panic(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *fmt, ...)
>
> Do we really need vargs? All the current users seem to be OK with a
> simple string. This makes the code slightly more complicated without any
> apparent reason.

I was just wondering the exactly same thing...

The contra-arg would be that in case someone wants to do nmi_panic()
with more than a string, then it won't work.

The question is, does nmi_panic() even need to dump something more than
regs and a string?

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