From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756026AbbAGI5a (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2015 03:57:30 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com ([209.85.212.181]:46622 "EHLO mail-wi0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751848AbbAGI53 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2015 03:57:29 -0500 Message-ID: <54ACF4FA.2080309@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:57:30 +0000 From: Daniel Thompson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Kiran Raparthy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Colin Cross , Jason Wessel , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, Android Kernel Team , John Stultz , Sumit Semwal Subject: Re: [RFC v4] debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception. References: <1419338309-16729-1-git-send-email-kiran.kumar@linaro.org> <20150105161412.44f53313e1d771dc9f968264@linux-foundation.org> <54ABFFD3.2020305@linaro.org> <20150106131608.a756b9e8aaf8c496099a5736@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20150106131608.a756b9e8aaf8c496099a5736@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/01/15 21:16, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:31:31 +0000 Daniel Thompson 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.