On Wed, 11 May 2022 17:06:35 -0500 Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5/11/22 16:56, Andrew Morton wrote:Presumably such a distribution would do this in initramfs initscripts
On Wed, 11 May 2022 13:34:00 -0500 Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:If a distribution (for example some embedded system distribution) wants
Add the option to kconfig and set the default panic_on_value.Why? What are the use-cases and how does this benefit our users?
the system to always panic when OOM, they may as well configure their
kernel to do it by default, rather than writing to
/proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom every boot. Maybe I'm missing another way to
do what I want here?
and forget about it.
What inspired the patch? Have you seen a situation which was best
solved with this change?