From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 2 17:11:51 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8E1F8F6E for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (beauharnois2.bhs1.scaleengine.net [142.4.218.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E65153B for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.1.1] (S01060001abad1dea.hm.shawcable.net [50.70.108.129]) (Authenticated sender: allan.jude@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ED82347EB7 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <529CBF53.3090400@allanjude.com> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:11:47 -0500 From: Allan Jude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME a tunable References: <529C4446.6020508@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <529C4446.6020508@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hX0KG8A3emQexbr7rROv7EjRmWx3gmNGL" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:11:51 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --hX0KG8A3emQexbr7rROv7EjRmWx3gmNGL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2013-12-02 03:26, Colin Percival wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems that PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME has been a compile-time setting fo= rever; > and I can't see any reason for this, but I assume there was one... at s= ome > point in the distant past. > > The attached patch makes it a loader tunable and sysctl. My reason for= wanting > this is to make EC2 images reboot faster after a panic (not that it hap= pens > very often, of course) -- there's no point waiting for a key press at t= he > console because the EC2 console is output-only. > > Any objections? > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" This would be very useful for me as well, we almost always run GENERIC, so being able to set this via loader/sysctl would allow us to make a panic'd box wait a reasonable amount of time for me to view the console. --=20 Allan Jude --hX0KG8A3emQexbr7rROv7EjRmWx3gmNGL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSnL9WAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKfWOgP/305aEt024VAmIdl07QFnFFN lPyKmhg7pGtDWSXtCO0T1jXcyWjHI9pVVXAP1ORx4q5Giu2rRrbNKEgncDPRj4+T LKeg7insxdz0ZMOm+tthJEZnaIfYSV9BpSm/tsndW2xJqVvplOsjjFqYsHX0PQRZ aHd7y/IOpVf4LGqbi86oOTPxuKuvNcT5DkyLUfS80kFAeiI32jf/pSbGgZtaw3an VBlS8n1StFHewVelc2kQHR3PZKVG0aA0iSXOuB8ueFkGaDsqevmWAT/g8zroF8Lr k2okYqW6iARtkOclAZNi3b9/eX5LdUEwFjsApPX0ofS1vjWrHZ/a50OmJZnLwwNR zQR2DJUinqb/HREYYYBoRmMytaz05hJJX4F71y2bihFIk+V/bXq6Vv+HaBzqCoNh jhZBnXlV76gesSZh15WIIQYehlxIxLuzbjsUbBB72Qn7DUNBhU9v3kqVQeYmDjuE fnKAWqZAcqTfwzQQfd4lu1uWcjDBJuwS5LZrjqB7LwD9NVzd9/SLrs9vpUpbcrtr fDcLILYIicbKv3DEdTCHdibc+t8qbDQEaN61iIGgBTMeCtcyb1EpFGn/sl/z3hkL pdLOg5UT1L/jI9OfNphxexznsZlKgl18hz4Ipxwqd1/pU4TqHW4ynC6E8VTQKVS1 oI59P4PRZ6UGk49AOM04 =8jbK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hX0KG8A3emQexbr7rROv7EjRmWx3gmNGL--