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| author |   Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> | 2016-12-14 15:05:52 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -0800 |
| commit | d1bd8ead126668a2d6c42d97cc3664e95b3fa1dc (patch) | |
| tree | 39c0cf2d482c762c17a4fe9ce90f72b6ea9424ce /include/linux/kdb.h | |
| parent | kernel/debug/debug_core.c: more properly delay for secondary CPUs (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-d1bd8ead126668a2d6c42d97cc3664e95b3fa1dc.tar.xz linux-dev-d1bd8ead126668a2d6c42d97cc3664e95b3fa1dc.zip | |
kdb: remove unused kdb_event handling
kdb_event state variable is only set but never checked in the kernel
code.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/kdb/msg01733.html suggests that this
variable affected WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() in the original
implementation. But this check never went upstream.
The semantic is unclear and racy. The value is updated after the
kdb_printf_lock is acquired and after it is released. It should be
symmetric at minimum. The value should be manipulated either inside or
outside the locked area.
Fortunately, it seems that the original function is gone and we could
simply remove the state variable.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480412276-16690-2-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kdb.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kdb.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kdb.h b/include/linux/kdb.h index 410decacff8f..eb706188dc23 100644 --- a/include/linux/kdb.h +++ b/include/linux/kdb.h @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ extern int kdb_poll_idx; * number whenever the kernel debugger is entered. */ extern int kdb_initial_cpu; -extern atomic_t kdb_event; /* Types and messages used for dynamically added kdb shell commands */ |