Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Oops assist... | Date | Thu, 06 May 1999 23:41:05 +1000 |
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On Thu, 6 May 1999 06:04:12 -0400 (EDT), "Michael B. Trausch" <mtrausch@wcnet.org> wrote: >OTOH, the kernel should be restarted... My Linux oops'd once when I put >buggy RAM in it, and it instantly rebooted.
That is hitting a special case, a triple page fault. The buggy RAM caused a fault, the error handler took another fault, recovering from that failed again - instant reboot from hardware. In a lot of cases, an Oops is recoverable. The problem is that we cannot tell which ones are restartable and which ones are not.
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