soft_nmi_interrupt() is called directly from the asm exception handling code, which passes regs as a pointer to the stack. So regs can't be NULL, it may be full of junk, but that's a separate problem.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c index 937cb92374c7..2494cbe34132 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -238,10 +238,7 @@ void soft_nmi_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs) pr_emerg("CPU %d self-detected hard LOCKUP\n", cpu); print_modules(); print_irqtrace_events(current); - if (regs) - show_regs(regs); - else - dump_stack(); + show_regs(regs); wd_smp_unlock(&flags); -- 2.7.4