Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 17:13:42 EST


Russell Miller <rmiller@duskglow.com> wrote:
>
> Any chance of making the dying thread sleep just long enough for syslogd to
> write it out to the file, then panic? Since it's an assertion, we have a
> little more leeway then in a page fault OOPS, for example.
>

Yes, that would probably be OK. It won't make anything worse than it
already is.

hm, the kernel used to panic if schedule() was called from in_interrupt(),
but that seems to have been taken out. It's easy enough (and free) to
put back in.
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