Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:22:50 -0700 | | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] was: [RFC] removal of sync in panic |
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:58:54AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > I have seen panic failing two times lately on an SMP system. The box > panic'ed but was running happily on the other cpus. The culprit of this > failure is the fact, that these panics have been caused by a block device > or a filesystem (e.g. using errors=panic). In these cases the likelihood > of a failure/hang of sys_sync() is high. This is exactly what happened in > both cases I have seen. Meanwhile the other cpus are happily continuing > destroying data as the kernel has a severe problem but its not aware of > that as smp_send_stop happens after sys_sync.
I've seen SMP boxen run interrupt handlers for ages after panicking, but I never thought much of it.
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