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From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To: Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	ssaner@redhat.com, atomlin@redhat.com, oleksandr@redhat.com,
	vbendel@redhat.com, kirill@shutemov.name,
	khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru, borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: sysctl: add panic_on_mm_error sysctl
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:42:56 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <063e702f-dc5f-b0ca-fe26-508a9f1e8e9a@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200127101100.92588-1-ghalat@redhat.com>

On 2020/01/27 19:11, Grzegorz Halat wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> index def074807cee..2fecd6b2547e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
>  - overflowgid
>  - overflowuid
>  - panic
> +- panic_on_mm_error

Maybe panic_on_inconsistent_mm is better, for an MM error sounds too generic
(e.g. is page allocation failure an error, is OOM killer an error,
is NULL pointer dereference an error, is use-after-free access an error) ?

Also, should this be in /proc/sys/vm/ than /proc/sys/kernel/ ?

>  - panic_on_oops
>  - panic_on_stackoverflow
>  - panic_on_unrecovered_nmi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-27 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-27 10:11 [PATCH 1/1] mm: sysctl: add panic_on_mm_error sysctl Grzegorz Halat
2020-01-27 10:28 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2020-01-27 10:30 ` Aaron Tomlin
2020-01-27 10:42 ` Tetsuo Handa [this message]
2020-01-27 10:55   ` Aaron Tomlin
2020-01-27 11:32   ` Grzegorz Halat
2020-01-27 12:26 ` Qian Cai
2020-01-27 12:51 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov

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