From: Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Add config option for default panic_on_oom value
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 17:06:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b597cc79-0f8a-c32d-397e-0c04777e9491@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220511145648.3c421ff592df32766319ea2d@linux-foundation.org>
On 5/11/22 16:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2022 13:34:00 -0500 Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
If a distribution (for example some embedded system distribution) wants
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?
Thanks,
Eddie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-11 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-11 18:34 Eddie James
2022-05-11 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2022-05-11 22:06 ` Eddie James [this message]
2022-05-11 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2022-05-12 14:01 ` Eddie James
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