Re: [PATCH] Introduce softpanic

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Fri 2008-01-25 16:01:28, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
> > soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
> > You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
> 
> I don't think it's a good idea to keep the network running in the
> soft panic. A lot of people have set ups that use ping was a watchdog
> and with nfsroot/ip=dhcp ping does work quite well before
> mounting root and then the watchdog might not pick up the 
> soft panic.
> 
> Using a polled keyboard driver after panic seems to be the better
> option to me, but if you want softpanic you should probably
> at least add a suitable panic notifier to the network stack 
> to shut it all down.

OTOH this will allow netconsole/sysrq over it to still work after
softpanic, which is good. Lets not over engineer it, I think current
code is fine.

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