> >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%.
For VM environments it would be better to have an interface that tells
the hypervisor that your guest is dead. That's what the disabled_wait()
line in panic() is good for on s390.
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