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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] arm: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is masked
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> Actually it already gets masked out. The argument to raise_nmi() points to a
> data structure owned by the backtrace library functions and this structure
> if altered during the execution of nmi_cpu_backtrace() to clear the calling
> CPU.
>
> I had originally planned to use cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu() for the
> conditional branch but that would be broken because nmi_cpu_backtrace()
> would become a nop if we clear anything from the mask before calling it!
>
> I guess I should add a comment about this to save us from broken but
> "obviously correct" cleanups in the future...

Absolutely.

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