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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dump_stack on panic
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:17:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071031101746.GC5817@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071031081513.GB3810@infradead.org>


* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:14:04AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > One (mostly psychological, but still serious) problem is that stack
> > dumps make panics always look like kernel bugs.  But there are panics
> > which are definitely not kernel bugs: like the popular cannot mount
> > root or machine checks or a couple of others.
> 
> But that one really shouldn't be a panic anyway.  The panic alone is 
> psycologically bad enough for users.  I think it would be best to have 
> a simple scanf loop asking for another root device..

yep. Steve's patch looks good in any case.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31  0:02 [PATCH] dump_stack on panic Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31  0:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-31  0:30   ` Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31  8:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-31 10:17     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-10-31 10:41     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-31 10:58       ` Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31 11:17         ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-31 11:39           ` Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31 11:53             ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-31 14:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-31 15:00   ` Steven Rostedt
2007-10-31 16:28     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-31 16:39       ` Steven Rostedt

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