is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?

[Joe Rhett]

> > > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > > > As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page
> > > > faults?  The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should.
> > > > This makes this problem hard to work on (must be at facility to debug..)

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > Sorry, 5.3-RELEASE with GENERIC kernel.  This is a sandbox ;-)
 
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:37:29PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> I in fact tested this on Saturday and it in fact rebooted.  With GENERIC,
> even. The digi driver sort of got left behind with the tty changes and
> handed out uninitialized mutexes that trip null pointer panics.  Machine
> came back up fine, so unless you have some type of panic that screws up
> the system enough to disrupt booting then it should work.

How do you know which is which?  Anything in the page fault to indicate that?

So anyway, I guess ATA code being upset is enough to hang it.  Not good.

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