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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: kernel_thread() & thread starting
To: prumpf@mandrakesoft.com (Philipp Rumpf)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:17:30 +0000 (GMT)
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Philipp Rumpf writes:
> That still won't catch keventd oopsing though - which I think might happen
> quite easily in real life.

Maybe we should panic in that case?  For example, what happens if kswapd
oopses?  kreclaimd?  bdflush?  kupdate?  All these have the same problem,
and should probably have the same "fix" applied, whatever that fix may
be.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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