[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 <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/emergency-restart.h b/include/asm-generic/emergency-restart.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d68a1e
--- /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 */