On Wed, 11 May 2022 17:06:35 -0500 Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/11/22 16:56, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 11 May 2022 13:34:00 -0500 Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Add the option to kconfig and set the default panic_on_value. > > Why? What are the use-cases and how does this benefit our users? > > If a distribution (for example some embedded system distribution) wants > the system to always panic when OOM, they may as well configure their > kernel to do it by default, rather than writing to > /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom every boot. Maybe I'm missing another way to > do what I want here? Presumably such a distribution would do this in initramfs initscripts and forget about it. What inspired the patch? Have you seen a situation which was best solved with this change?
