From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA25437 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:49:34 -0700 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk (HELO www.linux.org.uk) (195.92.249.252) by mailserv2.iuinc.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2001 18:53:05 -0000 Received: from willy by www.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 14HVB8-0002Ef-00; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:13:26 +0000 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:13:26 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Grant Grundler Cc: Matthew Wilcox , parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Oopser Message-ID: <20010113181326.C7463@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20010113073408.B16185@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <200101131708.JAA08678@milano.cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200101131708.JAA08678@milano.cup.hp.com>; from grundler@cup.hp.com on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:08:38AM -0800 Sender: List-ID: On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:08:38AM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote: > > I'm interested in having a useful debugging tool written by someone who > > knows the processor really well. What I basically want to be able to > > do is call oopser(10 * HZ) and have the machine reliably crash in 10 > > seconds time (and do a register dump). that would at least tell me > > where the kernel's got to. Sorry, I wasn't precise enough. I want the rest of the kernel to continue until the 10 seconds is up. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.