Re: [PATCH] acpi/ghes: Make ghes_panic_timeout adjustable as a parameter

[Feng Tang]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 01:10:09PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 07:40:18PM +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
> > Still we may need to honor the user setting, say if user specifically set
> > "panic=XXX" in the cmdline, we should detect that case and skip overwritting
> > the panic_timeout? 
> 
> So the user has set panic timeout to something, machine encounters a hw error
> which you want to log/report earlier but user's panic setting prevents you
> from doing that.
> 
> So what do you do?
> 
> What has higher prio?
> 
> I guess we're something like this:
> 
> https://youtu.be/gLFQystE8vU?t=71

Hah!

As per kernel config, most ARCH has 'panic_timeout' as 0 by default, so
need to set the kcmdline. For the case in my commit log, where user had
clear requirement for not-reboot and wait, the manually set 'panic=0'
should take priority here?  

Thanks,
Feng

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