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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Justin A <ja6447@albany.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.47-ac4 panic on boot.
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:16:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD5723E.CED7AE1A@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200211151712.11347.ja6447@albany.edu

Justin A wrote:
> 
> .config crashes, it oopses as soon as pnp starts, then 2 seconds later the
> previous oops comes up and it panics.

Irritating when it does that.  Here's a little patch which should
stop the machine dead after the first ooops, prevent stuff from
scrolling off the screen.

This, with the missing touch_nmi_watchdog() would be a handy
kernel boot option, perhaps.


--- 25/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~noscroll	Tue Nov 12 13:13:24 2002
+++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c	Tue Nov 12 13:14:16 2002
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ asmlinkage void alignment_check(void);
 asmlinkage void spurious_interrupt_bug(void);
 asmlinkage void machine_check(void);
 
-static int kstack_depth_to_print = 24;
+static int kstack_depth_to_print = 10;
 
 
 /*
@@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ bad:
 			printk("%02x ", c);
 		}
 	}
+	local_irq_disable();
+	for ( ; ; )
+		;
 	printk("\n");
 }	
 

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-15 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-15  5:59 2.5.47-ac4 panic on boot Justin A
2002-11-15  6:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-15  7:54   ` Justin A
2002-11-15  8:28     ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-15 22:12       ` Justin A
2002-11-15 22:16         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-15 22:59           ` Justin A
2002-11-15 22:02     ` Samuli Suonpaa
2002-11-15 22:36       ` Justin A

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