linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] don't panic if /sbin/init exits or killed

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Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:59:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@...e.fr>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] don't panic if /sbin/init exits or killed

> Ah, OK. We can change this to dump_stack() without BUG().

I'm not sure that's a whole lot better as far as confusion.  
And what use is it?  You know init exited.  Just print its exit_code 
and/or group_exit_code and you know what kind of kernel entry the exit was.


Thanks,
Roland
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