On Monday 17 July 2006 18:17, Horms wrote:
> This patch is part of an effort to unify the panic_on_oops behaviour
> across all architectures that implement it.
>
> It was pointed out to me by Andi Kleen that if an oops has occured
> in interrupt context, then calling sleep() in the oops path will only cause
> a panic, and that it would be really better for it not to be in the path at
> all.
>
> This patch removes the ssleep() call and reworks the console message
> accordinly. I have a slght concern that the resulting console message is
> too long, feedback welcome.
Keeping the delay might be actually useful so that you can see the panic
before system reboots when reboot on panic is enabled. I would just use a loop
of mdelays(1) with touch_nmi_watchdog/touch_softirq_watchdog()s
inbetween.
-Andi
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