From: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
To: "Prakhar Krishna" <prakhar2@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to compile kernel so it automatically reboots upon a crash instead of generating stack trace and then hang.
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:53:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080312095307.4873c750@bull.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f2ee0160803112152y21bb99a7t331fc9eff214e756@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Prakhar,
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:52:00 -0500 "Prakhar Krishna" <prakhar2@gmail.com> wrote:
> [I did search the mailing lists archives and the Web but did not find an answer,
> apololgies if this is duplicate question]
>
> i need my linux box to automatically reboot if it ever runs into a
> kernel panic/crash etc.
> For my production evvironment, it is not desired that kernel generate the stack
> trace and then wait there. We want it to reboot and comeback up again.
>
> if this has already been answered (i seriously think it should have
> been), please
> direct me to the answer else any details would be helpful.
>
This screams 'hardware watchdog' to me, as there are situations when the kernel
is completely hung.
Sebastien.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-12 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-12 4:52 Prakhar Krishna
2008-03-12 5:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-12 10:40 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-13 12:07 ` Prakhar Krishna
2008-03-12 8:53 ` Sebastien Dugue [this message]
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