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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, tabba@google.com, ardb@kernel.org,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@amperecomputing.com,
	zwang@amperecomputing.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: kexec: flush log to console in nmi_panic()
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:52:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210617175211.GE24813@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210617125023.7288-1-shijie@os.amperecomputing.com>

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 12:50:23PM +0000, Huang Shijie wrote:
> If kdump is configured, nmi_panic() may run to machine_kexec().
> 
> But in NMI context, the log is put in PER-CPU nmi_print_seq.
> So we can not see any log on the console since we entered the NMI context,
> such as the "Bye!" in previous line.
> 
> This patch fixes this issue by two steps:
> 	1) Uses printk_safe_flush_on_panic() to flush the log from
>              nmi_print_seq to global printk ring buffer,
>         2) Then uses console_flush_on_panic() to flush to console.
> 
> After this patch, we can see the "Bye!" log in the panic console.

Does it matter? I'd be more inclined to remove the print altogether...

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-17 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-17 12:50 [PATCH] arm64: kexec: flush log to console in nmi_panic() Huang Shijie
2021-06-17 17:52 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2021-06-17 17:55   ` Pavel Tatashin
2021-06-17 17:58     ` Will Deacon
2021-06-18  9:03       ` Huang Shijie
2021-06-21 10:08         ` Will Deacon
2021-06-22 10:14           ` Huang Shijie

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