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Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 16/16] rv/reactor: Add the panic reactor
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To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On 7/21/22 17:31, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:27:21 +0200
> Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Sample reactor that panics the system when an exception is found. This
>> is useful both to capture a vmcore, or to fail-safe a critical system.
> 
> BTW, do you plan on adding models to model the reactors?

I was about to say that at the panic level, it would not be needed, as code inspection
is reasonable (people in Elisa did IIRC). But then I recalled that we
have a printk reactor, and one might model it - at event level :-)

But then can disable the reactor :-).

-- Daniel

> ;-)
> 
> -- Steve