Re: [PATCH V3 08/11] EDAC/altera: Skip the panic notifier if kdump is loaded

[Guilherme G. Piccoli]

On 18/09/2022 11:10, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> On 19/08/2022 19:17, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
>> The altera_edac panic notifier performs some data collection with
>> regards errors detected; such code relies in the regmap layer to
>> perform reads/writes, so the code is abstracted and there is some
>> risk level to execute that, since the panic path runs in atomic
>> context, with interrupts/preemption and secondary CPUs disabled.
>>
>> Users want the information collected in this panic notifier though,
>> so in order to balance the risk/benefit, let's skip the altera panic
>> notifier if kdump is loaded. While at it, remove a useless header
>> and encompass a macro inside the sole ifdef block it is used.
>>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> V3:
>> - added the ack tag from Dinh - thanks!
>> - had a good discussion with Boris about that in V2 [0],
>> hopefully we can continue and reach a consensus in this V3.
>> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/46137c67-25b4-6657-33b7-cffdc7afc0d7@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>
>> V2:
>> - new patch, based on the discussion in [1].
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/62a63fc2-346f-f375-043a-fa21385279df@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>
>> [...]
> 
> Hi Dinh, Tony, Boris - sorry for the ping.

Hey folks, apologies for the new ping.

Is there anything to improve here maybe? Reviews / opinions are very
appreciated!
Cheers,


Guilherme