Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell Miller <> | Subject | Re: subsystem crashes reboot system? | Date | Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:51:04 -0600 |
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Any chance of making the dying thread sleep just long enough for syslogd to write it out to the file, then panic? Since it's an assertion, we have a little more leeway then in a page fault OOPS, for example.
--Russell
On Wed April 2 2003 3:51 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > Russell Miller <rmiller@duskglow.com> wrote: > > Since this was an assertion that failed, one would think that bringing > > the system down automatically in an orderly - then, if that fails, > > disorderly - fashion would be possible. > > The way to handle this is to make arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:die() optionally > call panic() rather than do_exit(). > > It makes sense. It does mean that we now have zero chance of the > diagnostic info making it to the system logs.
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