[PATCH V3 04/11] um: Improve panic notifiers consistency and ordering

Guilherme G. Piccoli gpiccoli at igalia.com
Sun Sep 18 07:00:36 PDT 2022


On 19/08/2022 19:17, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> Currently the panic notifiers from user mode linux don't follow
> the convention for most of the other notifiers present in the
> kernel (indentation, priority setting, numeric return).
> More important, the priorities could be improved, since it's a
> special case (userspace), hence we could run the notifiers earlier;
> user mode linux shouldn't care much with other panic notifiers but
> the ordering among the mconsole and arch notifier is important,
> given that the arch one effectively triggers a core dump.
> 
> Fix that by running the mconsole notifier as the first panic
> notifier, followed by the architecture one (that coredumps).
> 
> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov at cambridgegreys.com>
> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at igalia.com>
> 
> V3:
> - No changes.
> [...]

Hi Johannes, sorry for the ping. Do you think you could pick this one?
Or if you prefer, I can resend it alone (not in the series) - let me
know your preference.

Thanks,


Guilherme



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