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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@chromium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] panic: panic=-1 for immediate reboot
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:39:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110622093903.GA1981@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308612129-12488-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org>

On Mon, Jun 20, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:

> From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@chromium.org>
> 
> When kernel BUG or oops occurs, ChromeOS intends to panic and immediately
> reboot, with stacktrace and other messages preserved in RAM across reboot.
> But the longer we delay, the more likely the user is to poweroff and lose
> the info.

I have no strong opinion here, but:

Is delaying one second (instead of say 180 like on powerpc) such a big
deal if the system is dead anyway?

Olaf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20 23:22 [PATCH 1/2] panic: panic=-1 for immediate reboot Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-06-20 23:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] panic: do not unblank_screen when panic_timeout < 0 Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-06-22 22:30   ` [PATCH] panic, vt: do not force oops output " Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-07-06 23:33     ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-15 22:57       ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-07-07  7:53     ` Alan Cox
2011-07-15 21:39       ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-07-15 23:17         ` Alan Cox
2011-06-22  9:39 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-06-22 22:17   ` [PATCH 1/2] panic: panic=-1 for immediate reboot Mandeep Singh Baines
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-15 22:39 Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-07-15 22:56 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-07-15 22:53 Mandeep Singh Baines

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