Re: [RFC v4] debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception.

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Wed Jan 07 2015 - 03:57:33 EST


On 06/01/15 21:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:31:31 +0000 Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 06/01/15 00:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> We appear to have forgotten to document panic_timeout. Sigh.
>>
>> I knew I'd seen it somewhere...
>>
>> Once its been sysctlised it ends up called "panic":
>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
>
> Confused. That file doesn't mention panic_timeout. But it is the
> place where panic_timeout can be described.

The sysctl is called "panic" (as is the closely related kernel parameter)

The name panic_timeout is used only for the C symbol presumably because
panic was already used for something else...


Daniel.

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