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> But that will also give a precise error location, which makes reporting and fixing of the root cause easier. It could be harder to pinpoint of the code rolled forward in broken state.

I think you must have missed out on how Linux currently handles these situations. It does not silently move on past the error; it prints a stack trace and CPU state to the kernel log before moving on. So you have all of the information you'd get from a full kernel panic, plus the benefit of a system that may be able to keep running long enough to save that kernel log to disk.



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