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From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert serial_core oopses to BUG_ON
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:01:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060228220128.GA4254@unjust.cyrius.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060228101713.6fd44027.akpm@osdl.org>

* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [2006-02-28 10:17]:
> > It will oops in hard-to-guess, place, anyway.
> Will it?   Where?  Unfixably?

http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-02/msg00241.html is
one example we just had on MIPS.  On SGI IP22, using the serial
console, you'd get the following on shutdown:

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending proces

and then nothing at all.  I'd never have suspected the serial driver,
had not users reported that the machine shutdowns properly when using
the framebuffer.

For the record, I don't mind whether it's BUG_ON or WARN_ON, but I
just wanted to give this as an example of an "oops in hard-to-guess,
place".
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-28 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-26 10:05 [PATCH] Convert serial_core oopses to BUG_ON Russell King
2006-02-26 10:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-26 10:18   ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-26 18:17   ` Russell King
2006-02-26 20:00     ` Russell King
2006-02-27 14:13   ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-28 18:17     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28 22:01       ` Martin Michlmayr [this message]
2006-02-28 23:32         ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 17:10           ` Russell King
2006-03-01 19:47             ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-01 22:32               ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] <5Kr1a-6MF-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5KraE-6XP-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5KyFv-RL-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-02-26 22:34     ` Karol Kozimor
2006-02-26 22:41       ` Russell King
     [not found] <20060227162827.GC2389@ucw.cz>
2006-03-01 19:00 ` Pavel Machek

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