Re: [PATCH] was: [RFC] removal of sync in panic

[linux-kernel]

William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 15.07.2004,
09:27:34:
> William Lee Irwin III  schrieb am 15.07.2004, 
> >> I've seen SMP boxen run interrupt handlers for ages after 
> >> panicking, but I never thought much of it.

> > I have seen more than just interupt handlers.I was able to log in  > > via ssh. After typing dmesg I saw 2 panics and the system was
> > still up.

> Jesus fscking H. Christ wtf is going on here?

It was a 4 cpu box. 2 cpus have been busy trying to sync. Therefore, 2
cpus were still able to do some work including ssh and bash. That was
the reason why I proposed to remove sync out of panic.
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