[V5 PATCH 2/4] panic/x86: Allow cpus to save registers even if they are looping in NMI context

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Wed Nov 25 01:57:58 PST 2015


On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 09:46:37AM +0000, 河合英宏 / KAWAI,HIDEHIRO wrote:
> Does *old* code mean the code without this patch *series* ?

Yes.

> I prefer this, but we might want to add some more prefix or suffix.
> For example, "conditionally_run_crash_nmi_callback".

That's unnecessary IMO. If you need to express that, you could write
that in a comment above the function definition. Anyone who looks at
the code then will know that it is conditional, like so many other
kernel functions. :)

> Thanks for your deep review!

Thanks for the patience!

:-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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