[V4 PATCH 1/4] panic/x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:13:55PM +0000, 河合英宏 / KAWAI，HIDEHIRO wrote:
> Peter saids -tip tree doesn't have panic_on_unrecovered_nmi in the
> previoius discussion, but it still exists.  So, I didn't change
> anything about panic_on_unrecovered_nmi.
> 

> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
> > @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ void unregister_nmi_handler(unsigned int type, const char *name)
> >  #endif
> > 
> >  	if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
> > -		panic("NMI: Not continuing");
> > +		nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");
> > 
> >  	pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
> > 

I was looking at unregister_nmi_handler() because that's the function
the diff points to. That still doesn't have panic_on_unrecovered_nmi.

It looks like your diff tool is 'broken' and generates nonsense function
data.