From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Total system lockup with Alt-SysRQ-L
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:00:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8733.1009501204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011224122605.A2110@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20011224122605.A2110@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20011223175846.B27993@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <E16IKwX-0002U3-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20011224083752.A1181@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
rmk@arm.linux.org.uk said:
> Ok, can someone explain *why* it is desirable to attempt to kill pid1
> given that doing so will completely lockup the machine? (should we
> rename it to "Lockup" instead of "killalL"? 8)
It's not. I believe SysRq-L was implemented while Linux would still exhibit
sane behaviour upon pid1 dying, and was never removed when the current
brokenness was introduced.
--
dwmw2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-28 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-23 17:58 Total system lockup with Alt-SysRQ-L Russell King
2001-12-24 2:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 8:37 ` Russell King
2001-12-24 11:48 ` Denis Oliver Kropp
2001-12-24 12:26 ` Russell King
2001-12-25 11:33 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-24 14:27 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-24 17:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-25 11:35 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-28 1:00 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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