* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Making it dependent upon CONFIG_PREEMPT seems a bit sucky. Perhaps
> pass in some "you were called from /proc/sysrq-trigger" notification?
looks quite invasive to the whole sysrq interfaces, it trickles all the
way down into sysrq.c's handler prototype, affecting 20 prototypes.
Worth the trouble?
> Also, there are ways of telling if the kernel has oopsed (oops
> counter, oops_in_progress, etc) which should perhaps be tested.
i'm not sure. Should we perhaps forget this patch and only do the
i386/x86_64 VMX patch i sent?
> Or just learn to type `reboot -fn' ;)
well, emergency_reboot() might also be called from panic(), if someone
sets panic_timeout, resulting in a similar hang. It might be called from
a serial console on a soft-locked-up system, having no physical access
to the system. Having a hung reboot in that scenario is not really
productive.
Ingo
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