On Aug 5 2007 17:28, Jörg Hoffmann wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>(This is the first time i send in a patch, so correct me if I’m doing
>something wrong)
See Documentation/SubmittingPatches. (And perhaps, U+0092 should be replaced by
something visible ;-)
>This patch causes the cpu to stop instead of using an endless loop (I’m
>not sure if this works with the watchdog so please take a review).
>The idea behind this is to keep the power usage on panic’d machines
>(without auto-reboot) low. Another point is in an Virtual Machine
>environment the process of the VM is using 100% of the host-cpu. This
>would stuck other programs or VMs. This patch brings the VM to stop and
>keeps the cpu usage below 1%.
>
>I have tested the patch in an VM, the only change is mdelay(); to
>cpu_idle(); it doesn’t need more libs and should have no special
>depencies to consider.
cpu_idle() uses quite a lot of variables which may be invalid after a panic.
Something similar has been mentioned previously,
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/19/303
>The panic-blink doesn’t work further so it might be removed if there is
>no better way.
>
>Maybe someone has an better idea for this ‘problem’
>
Jan
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