[Patch 1/6] XPANIC: Add extended panic interface

[K.Prasad]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:38:19PM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:12 PM, K.Prasad <prasad at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > commit e668fa1aea7844ac4c7ea09030a2f3e647a4adb1
> > Author: Andi Kleen <ak at linux.intel.com>
> > Date:   Fri Nov 19 18:36:44 2010 +0100
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6.slim_kdump/kernel/panic.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.slim_kdump.orig/kernel/panic.c
> > +++ linux-2.6.slim_kdump/kernel/panic.c
> > @@ -57,14 +57,37 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_blink);
> >  *
> >  *     This function never returns.
> >  */
> > -NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
> > +NORET_TYPE void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
> > +{
> > +       va_list ap;
> > +       va_start(ap, fmt);
> > +       vpanic(0, 0, fmt, ap);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic);
> > +
> > +NORET_TYPE void xpanic(enum panic_flags flags, int timeout,
> > +                       const char *fmt, ...)
> > +{
> > +       va_list ap;
> > +       va_start(ap, fmt);
> > +       xpanic(flags, timeout, fmt, ap);
> 
> Why are you calling xpanic() here again?
> I guess you meant vpanic().
>

True, this is a bug in the original patch found in the git tree
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6.git, for
which I have proposed a patch here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/26/337.

Thanks,
K.Prasad