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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: chris@zankel.net, tony.luck@intel.com,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, ak@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] panic_on_oops: remove ssleep()
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:23:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060717172341.6d49f109.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060717231056.GC12463@verge.net.au>

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:10:59 -0400
Horms <horms@verge.net.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:27:51AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Monday 17 July 2006 18:17, Horms wrote:
> > ...
> > 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.
> 
> Ok, I will look into making that happen. I agree that the pause is
> quite useful.

It's kind-of already implemented, via pause_on_oops.  Perhaps doing
something like 

	if (panic_on_oops)
		pause_on_oops = max(pause_on_oops, 5*HZ);

would be sufficient.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-18  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-17 16:17 [PATCH] panic_on_oops: remove ssleep() Horms
2006-07-17 22:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-17 23:10   ` Horms
2006-07-18  0:23     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-07-18 19:13       ` Horms
2006-07-20 16:03 ` Paul Mackerras
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-18  1:22 Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-18 19:15 ` Horms

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