Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:07:13 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 04:38:02AM +0100, Philipp Rumpf wrote: > Init should never die. If we get to do_exit in init we'll panic which is > the right thing to do (reboot on critical systems).
If the page fault can fail with OOM on init, init will get a SIGSEGV while running a signal handler (copy-user will return -EFAULT regardless it was an oom or a real segfault) and it _won't_ panic and the system is unusable.
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