Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 10:41:41 +0000 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: Oops assist... |
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> i.e. the Oops is dumped to the first (after the header) sector of the > swap file. The computer is restarted automatically. I don't > think that it a good idea to continue after an Oops: > if you kill a kernel thread, then you have memory corruptions, > lost spinlocks, lost semaphores: the computer will crash in a few > seconds anyway.
*Bzzzt*. It is actually good we do not die on oopses. they are a convenient way to test drivers, and the most common oops cause (dereferenced NULL pointer) does not cause memory corruption.
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