On Monday 17 July 2006 18:17, Horms wrote: > This patch is part of an effort to unify the panic_on_oops behaviour > across all architectures that implement it. > > It was pointed out to me by Andi Kleen that if an oops has occured > in interrupt context, then calling sleep() in the oops path will only cause > a panic, and that it would be really better for it not to be in the path at > all. > > This patch removes the ssleep() call and reworks the console message > accordinly. I have a slght concern that the resulting console message is > too long, feedback welcome. Keeping the delay might be actually useful so that you can see the panic before system reboots when reboot on panic is enabled. I would just use a loop of mdelays(1) with touch_nmi_watchdog/touch_softirq_watchdog()s inbetween. -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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