Re: [patch] halt_on_oops command line option

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:22:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > 
>  > How's this look?
>  > Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
>  > due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.
>  > 
>  > If this happens the user can reboot with the `halt_on_oops' option.  It will
>  > allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single time.  Second
>  > oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs to enter a
>  > tight loop.
> 
> seems a bit aggressive for UP.  Now if my sound driver oopses, I don't
> just lose sound, I lock up.  (That's why I made it a pause, not a halt
> in my earlier patch).
> 

Well I'm assuming people would only enable the option if they are
experiencing persistently-scrolling-off oopses.

We could make the boot option be number-of-seconds-to-pause I guess.  Do
you think it's really worth it?