Re: Oops assist...

Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@jcsbs.lanobis.de)
Wed, 5 May 1999 10:41:41 +0000

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> i.e. the Oops is dumped to the first (after the header) sector of the
> swap file. The computer is restarted automatically. I don't
> think that it a good idea to continue after an Oops:
> if you kill a kernel thread, then you have memory corruptions,
> lost spinlocks, lost semaphores: the computer will crash in a few
> seconds anyway.

*Bzzzt*. It is actually good we do not die on oopses. they are a convenient
way to test drivers, and the most common oops cause (dereferenced NULL pointer)
does not cause memory corruption.

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