linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dump

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Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:41:47 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dump_stack on panic

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:15:13AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:14:04AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > One (mostly psychological, but still serious) problem is that stack
> > dumps make panics always look like kernel bugs.  But there are panics
> > which are definitely not kernel bugs: like the popular cannot mount
> > root or machine checks or a couple of others.
> 
> But that one really shouldn't be a panic anyway.  The panic alone
> is psycologically bad enough for users.  I think it would be best to
> have a simple scanf loop asking for another root device..

Then you couldn't recover with panic=30 from it.

Besides even if you fix that one there are others, like machine checks
where it is impossible to recover.

-andi

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