linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] panic: Make panic

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Message-ID: <20131119071531.GA32469@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:15:31 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	paulus@...ba.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] panic: Make panic_timeout configurable


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:04:36 +0000 (GMT) Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com> wrote:
> 
> > The panic_timeout value can be set via the command line option 'panic=x', or via
> > /proc/sys/kernel/panic, however that is not sufficient when the panic occurs
> > before we are able to set up these values. Thus, add a CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT
> > so that we can set the desired value from the .config.
> > 
> > The default panic_timeout value continues to be 0 - wait forever, except for
> > powerpc and mips, which have been defaulted to 180 and 5 respectively. This
> > is in keeping with the fact that these arches already set panic_timeout in
> > their arch init code. However, I found three exceptions- two in mips and one in
> > powerpc where the settings didn't match these default values. In those cases, I
> > left the arch code so it continues to override, in case the user has not changed
> > from the default. It would nice if these arches had one default value, or if we
> > could determine the correct setting at compile-time.
> 
> Felipe is proposing a simpler patch ("panic: setup panic_timeout
> early") which switches to early_param().  Is that sufficient for the
> (undescribed!) failure which you are presumably observing?

Also note that that patch is still incomplete: if panic_timeout is 
switched to early_param() then closely related functionality such as 
pause_on_oops should be moved early as well...

Thanks,

	Ingo
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