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Subject: Re: Graceful failure instead of panicking in kmem_malloc
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Bharma Ji wrote:
> Is there any way to make the system log and then gracefully shut off instead
> of panicking?

Is there any way to make the system log and then gracefully shut off while
guaranteeing that the logging/shutdown procedure won't also run out memory
somewhere?