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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2010-03-22 14:17:26 +0300
committerMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2010-03-22 14:17:26 +0300
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Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc2' into for-2.6.34
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@@ -573,11 +573,14 @@ Because other nodes' memory may be free. This means system total status
may be not fatal yet.
If this is set to 2, the kernel panics compulsorily even on the
-above-mentioned.
+above-mentioned. Even oom happens under memory cgroup, the whole
+system panics.
The default value is 0.
1 and 2 are for failover of clustering. Please select either
according to your policy of failover.
+panic_on_oom=2+kdump gives you very strong tool to investigate
+why oom happens. You can get snapshot.
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