Re: [Patch] panic.c

2007-08-05 Thread Heiko Carstens
> >The idea behind this is to keep the power usage on panic’d machines > >(without auto-reboot) low. Another point is in an Virtual Machine > >environment the process of the VM is using 100% of the host-cpu. This > >would stuck other programs or VMs. This patch brings the VM to stop and > >keeps th

Re: [Patch] panic.c

2007-08-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Aug 5 2007 17:28, Jörg Hoffmann wrote: >Hello everybody, >(This is the first time i send in a patch, so correct me if I’m doing >something wrong) See Documentation/SubmittingPatches. (And perhaps, U+0092 should be replaced by something visible ;-) >This patch causes the cpu to stop instead of

[Patch] panic.c

2007-08-05 Thread Jörg Hoffmann
Hello everybody, (This is the first time i send in a patch, so correct me if I’m doing something wrong) This patch causes the cpu to stop instead of using an endless loop (I’m not sure if this works with the watchdog so please take a review). The idea behind this is to keep the power usage on panic