Re: Kernel Panic sysrq questions

From	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Kernel Panic sysrq questions
Date	2017-09-19 02:30 +0200
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Hello,

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 03:35:36PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > My Understanding is When a fatal panic happens, The Kernel is in
> > frozen state (no workques
> > or tasks get executed).
> > 
> > Is my understanding correct or am i missing something here.
> 
> Hi,
> What kernel version?
> 
> I don't see anything in the wq docs about that specific point.

There's nothing workqueue specific there.  Panic doesn't bring the
system to a complete stop in general.  If you wanna change how the
system behaves post-panic, please take a look at panic= boot param.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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Re: Kernel Panic sysrq questions Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2017-09-19 00:40 +0200
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