With commit 
49dca5aebfdeadd4bf27b6cb4c60392147dc35a4 I introduced
a bug (visible if CONFIG_PROVE_RCU is enabled) which occures when a panic
has happened:
[ 1526.520230] ===============================
[ 1526.520230] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[ 1526.520230] 3.5.0-rc1+ #12 Not tainted
[ 1526.520230] -------------------------------
[ 1526.520230] /c/kernel-tests/mm/include/linux/rcupdate.h:436 Illegal context switch in RCU read-side critical section!
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[ 1526.520230] other info that might help us debug this:
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[ 1526.520230] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[ 1526.520230] 3 locks held by net.agent/3279:
[ 1526.520230]  #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<
ffffffff82f85962>] do_page_fault+0x193/0x390
[ 1526.520230]  #1:  (panic_lock){+.+...}, at: [<
ffffffff82ed2830>] panic+0x37/0x1d3
[ 1526.520230]  #2:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<
ffffffff810b9b28>] rcu_lock_acquire+0x0/0x29
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[ 1526.520230] stack backtrace:
[ 1526.520230] Pid: 3279, comm: net.agent Not tainted 3.5.0-rc1+ #12
[ 1526.520230] Call Trace:
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff810e1570>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x109/0x112
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff810bfe3a>] rcu_preempt_sleep_check+0x45/0x47
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff810bfe5a>] __might_sleep+0x1e/0x19a
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff82f8010e>] down_write+0x26/0x81
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff8276a966>] led_trigger_unregister+0x1f/0x9c
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff8276def5>] heartbeat_reboot_notifier+0x15/0x19
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff82f85bf5>] notifier_call_chain+0x96/0xcd
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff82f85cba>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x8e/0xff
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff81094b7c>] ? kmsg_dump+0x37/0x1eb
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff82f85d3f>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x16
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff82ed28e1>] panic+0xe8/0x1d3
[ 1526.520230]  [<
ffffffff811473e2>] out_of_memory+0x15d/0x1d3
So in case of a panic, now just turn of the LED. Other approaches like
scheduling a work to unregister the trigger aren't working because there
isn't much which still runs after a panic occured (except timers).
Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
 #include "leds.h"
 
+static int panic_heartbeats;
+
 struct heartbeat_trig_data {
        unsigned int phase;
        unsigned int period;
        unsigned long brightness = LED_OFF;
        unsigned long delay = 0;
 
+       if (unlikely(panic_heartbeats)) {
+               led_set_brightness(led_cdev, LED_OFF);
+               return;
+       }
+
        /* acts like an actual heart beat -- ie thump-thump-pause... */
        switch (heartbeat_data->phase) {
        case 0:
        return NOTIFY_DONE;
 }
 
+static int heartbeat_panic_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
+                                    unsigned long code, void *unused)
+{
+       panic_heartbeats = 1;
+       return NOTIFY_DONE;
+}
+
 static struct notifier_block heartbeat_reboot_nb = {
        .notifier_call = heartbeat_reboot_notifier,
 };
 
 static struct notifier_block heartbeat_panic_nb = {
-       .notifier_call = heartbeat_reboot_notifier,
+       .notifier_call = heartbeat_panic_notifier,
 };
 
 static int __init heartbeat_trig_init(void)