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From: Ken Sugawara <sugaken.r3@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: wim@iguana.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softdog - panic instead of reboot, kernel 2.6.22.9
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:25:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81C80BF10115AEsugaken.r3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071010131543.7da15e67@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> analysis.  Provided that timer interrupts are not blocked, this patch 
>> might enable them to get a crash dump in such a situation by activating 
>> softdog.
>
>You want the NMI based anti lockup stuff for that. If the box locks up
>then generally softdog will fail. The NMI based debug
>(CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP) is the option you want.

Thanks for your comment.  I'll look into it, but unfortunately, most of 
our customers are running much older kernels (e.g. 2.6.9-based from 
RHEL4.x) which don't have the option, and some non-negligible number of 
them are running on non-IA platforms, whereas right now the option seems 
to be implemented only in i386 and x86_64 (correct me if I'm wrong).

Anyways, I'll try to look for a way to manually trigger NMI on their non
-IA boxes, preferably without any additional hardware.

Regards,

Ken

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-11 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-10  6:42 [PATCH] softdog - panic instead of reboot, kernel 2.6.22.9 sugaken.r3
2007-10-10 12:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-11 10:25   ` Ken Sugawara [this message]

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