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From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kiran Raparthy <kiran.kumar@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
	kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v4] debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception.
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:57:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54ACF4FA.2080309@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150106131608.a756b9e8aaf8c496099a5736@linux-foundation.org>

On 06/01/15 21:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:31:31 +0000 Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/01/15 00:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> We appear to have forgotten to document panic_timeout.  Sigh.
>>
>> I knew I'd seen it somewhere...
>>
>> Once its been sysctlised it ends up called "panic":
>>   https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
> 
> Confused.  That file doesn't mention panic_timeout.  But it is the
> place where panic_timeout can be described.

The sysctl is called "panic" (as is the closely related kernel parameter)

The name panic_timeout is used only for the C symbol presumably because
panic was already used for something else...


Daniel.


      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-07  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-23 12:38 [RFC v4] debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception Kiran Raparthy
2015-01-06  0:14 ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-06  5:01   ` Kiran Raparthy
2015-01-06 15:25   ` Daniel Thompson
2015-01-06 21:17     ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-07  3:36       ` Kiran Raparthy
2015-01-06 15:31   ` Daniel Thompson
2015-01-06 21:16     ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-07  8:57       ` Daniel Thompson [this message]

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