Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?

Andrew Morton
2003-04-02T21:40:18Z

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.