Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 May 1999 15:51:33 -0400 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: Oops assist... |
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"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: > Currently, oops reports are syslog'd.
Yes, but that's dangerous, because it means that the oops is send to a user mode process, the user mode process calls write(), fsync(), etc. It means that a crashing kernel continues to write to you harddisk. You want to minimize this as much as possible.
And: if we deserialize the filesystem, this will often fail, because the 'kill thread' might cause a lost semaphore, and thus a deadlock.
Regards, Manfred
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