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SubjectRe: Oops assist...
"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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