What about the swap file?
i.e. the Oops is dumped to the first (after the header) sector of the
swap file. The computer is restarted automatically. I don't
think that it a good idea to continue after an Oops:
if you kill a kernel thread, then you have memory corruptions,
lost spinlocks, lost semaphores: the computer will crash in a few
seconds anyway.
sys_swapoff() clears the first data sector,
sys_swapon() checks if the swap partition contains a oops, and if there
is an oops it transfers the oops into the system log, and then
clears the first sector.
AFAIK, this is would similar to the NT implemenation: if you have
no swap file, then the system cannot dump BSOD's.
Regards,
Manfred
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