On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd@gmail.com> wrote:
1. I think oops and panic are both some way to deal with errors occurs in kernel space. Is there any relationship between them? AFAIK both are same.
Really? I thought "oops" would be generated for critical errors like processor exceptions etc when a kernel CANNOT proceed further in a reliable way...whereas a "panic" was _artificially_ induced (?), eg: a missing 'init' to run (very common error, which I'm sure most of us here would've experienced :)), and the kernel _may_ proceed further with some reliability Thanks for this but what i meant was that some developers uses oops and panic term interchangeably. Technically you are right.
Wikipedia, has a decent explanation of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_oops
HTH, -mandeep