From 7c9034735eccbf82608a4602c59aaf6053ea9416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:29:55 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Add emergency_restart() When the kernel is working well and we want to restart cleanly kernel_restart is the function to use. But in many instances the kernel wants to reboot when thing are expected to be working very badly such as from panic or a software watchdog handler. This patch adds the function emergency_restart() so that callers can be clear what semantics they expect when calling restart. emergency_restart() is expected to be callable from interrupt context and possibly reliable in even more trying circumstances. This is an initial generic implementation for all architectures. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-generic/emergency-restart.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/emergency-restart.h (limited to 'include/asm-generic/emergency-restart.h') diff --git a/include/asm-generic/emergency-restart.h b/include/asm-generic/emergency-restart.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0d68a1eae98 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/asm-generic/emergency-restart.h @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_EMERGENCY_RESTART_H +#define _ASM_GENERIC_EMERGENCY_RESTART_H + +static inline void machine_emergency_restart(void) +{ + machine_restart(NULL); +} + +#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_EMERGENCY_RESTART_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3