[PATCH 21/30] panic: Introduce the panic pre-reboot notifier list

[Petr Mladek]

On Mon 2022-05-16 13:33:51, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> On 16/05/2022 13:18, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >> [...]
> > Would it be possible to have some global "kdump is configured + enabled" flag?
> > 
> > Then notifiers could make an informed choice on whether to deep dive to
> > get all the possible details (when there is no kdump) or just skim the high
> > level stuff (to maximize chance of getting a successful kdump).
> > 
> > -Tony
> 
> Good idea Tony! What if I wire a kexec_crash_loaded() in the notifier?

I like this idea.

One small problem is that kexec_crash_loaded() has valid result
only under kexec_mutex. On the other hand, it should stay true
once loaded so that the small race window should be innocent.

> With that, are you/Petr/Dinh OK in moving it for the info list?

Sounds good to me.

Best Regards,
Petr