[PATCH v2 1/1] kernel.h: Split out panic and oops helpers

Sebastian Reichel sre at kernel.org
Fri Apr 9 12:49:24 BST 2021


Hi,

On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 01:02:50PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> kernel.h is being used as a dump for all kinds of stuff for a long time.
> Here is the attempt to start cleaning it up by splitting out panic and
> oops helpers.
> 
> There are several purposes of doing this:
> - dropping dependency in bug.h
> - dropping a loop by moving out panic_notifier.h
> - unload kernel.h from something which has its own domain
> 
> At the same time convert users tree-wide to use new headers, although
> for the time being include new header back to kernel.h to avoid twisted
> indirected includes for existing users.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard at mvista.com>
> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner at ubuntu.com>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu at kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux at rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> v2:
>  - fixed all errors with allmodconfig on x86_64 (Andrew)
>  - checked with allyesconfig on x86_64
>  - additionally grepped source code for panic notifier list usage
>    and converted all users
>  - elaborated commit message (Luis)
>  - collected given tags (incl. Andrew's SoB, see below)
> 
> I added Andrew's SoB since part of the fixes I took from him. Andrew,
> feel free to amend or tell me how you want me to do.
> 
> [...]
>  drivers/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.c        |  1 +
> [...]

Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre at kernel.org>

-- Sebastian
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