On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 18:14 +0530, Anithra P Janakiraman wrote:
We currently have no way of determining the reason for failure when aThis sounds like a decent idea. But, is it something that should be a
softdog timeout occurs. At the minimum a snapshot of the system would
help to determine the cause.
The attached patch invokes panic on softdog timeout iff kdump is
configured, if kdump is not configured it works as usual.
bit more optional? We currently have boot options for when to reboot or
panic for other things, and this is really the first use of
kexec_crash_image outside of kexec itself. Is it really the best switch
to use?
Will this break anyone who expects a quick, clean, reboot and instead
gets a kdump? Should we make _all_ emergency_restart()s use kdump?
You might have noticed, but your subject is a little wonky. It should
probably just omit the 1/1 stuff when you only have a single patch
series. The subject is pretty short and doesn't really explain what's
going on. Could you beef it up a bit?