commit 58c5661f2144 ("panic, x86: Allow CPUs to save registers even if looping in NMI context") introduced nmi_panic() which prevents concurrent/recursive execution of panic(). It also saves registers for the crash dump on x86.
ipmi_watchdog driver can call panic() from NMI handler, so replace it with nmi_panic(). Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai...@hitachi.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <miny...@acm.org> Cc: openipmi-develo...@lists.sourceforge.net --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c index 096f0ce..4facc75 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c @@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ ipmi_nmi(unsigned int val, struct pt_regs *regs) the timer. So do so. */ pretimeout_since_last_heartbeat = 1; if (atomic_inc_and_test(&preop_panic_excl)) - panic(PFX "pre-timeout"); + nmi_panic(regs, PFX "pre-timeout"); } return NMI_HANDLED;