From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Add config option for default panic_on_oom value
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 15:36:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220511153616.9298d246adb1c7fea9ab453b@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b597cc79-0f8a-c32d-397e-0c04777e9491@linux.ibm.com>
On Wed, 11 May 2022 17:06:35 -0500 Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/11/22 16:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 May 2022 13:34:00 -0500 Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com> 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-11 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-11 18:34 [PATCH] mm: Add config option for default panic_on_oom value Eddie James
2022-05-11 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2022-05-11 22:06 ` Eddie James
2022-05-11 22:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-05-12 14:01 ` Eddie James
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