On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 23:33 -0700, Jörn Engel wrote:
> One could argue that killing the realtime thread is even better than
> panic, as things can restart with a blank slate even faster. But the
> real benefit is that we get better debug data for the failing component.
> If we had a kernel bug, the backtrace would usually be sufficient to
> point fingers. With a bonkers realtime thread, not so much.
If userspace wants a watchdog, it should train a userspace dog, not turn
the kernel watchdog into a userspace attack dog.
-Mike
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