From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: akiyama.nobuyuk@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI trigger switch support for debugging
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:23:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smdn4elb.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ZWEt-6Uw-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (Andrew Morton's message of "Wed, 26 May 2004 04:50:05 +0200")
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> AKIYAMA Nobuyuki <akiyama.nobuyuk@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, I resend document and patch.
>
> Great, thanks. Updates to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt would be nice.
>
>
> If the machine locks up with interrupts enabled we can use sysrq-T and
> sysrq-P. If it locks up with interrupts disabled the NMI watchdog will
> automatically produce the same info as your patch. So what advantage does
> the patch add?
His patch will still work e.g. if the interrupt locks are messed up.
Then the keyboard interrupt will not work anymore, but NMI will.
Arguably a bit obscure, but could happen.
The bigger advantage I see from the patch (and why i like it) is
that distributions often disable sysrq by default for security
reasons. This is not really needed for this NMI oopser, since you
can assume that someone with access to the NMI switch can crash the
machine at will.
-Andi
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2004-05-26 11:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-05-24 9:21 [PATCH] NMI trigger switch support for debugging AKIYAMA Nobuyuki
2004-05-24 9:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-26 1:36 ` AKIYAMA Nobuyuki
2004-05-26 1:41 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-26 2:28 ` AKIYAMA Nobuyuki
2004-05-26 2:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-26 12:17 ` AKIYAMA Nobuyuki
2004-05-26 12:52 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-05-27 8:43 ` AKIYAMA Nobuyuki
2004-05-26 9:43 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-05-26 13:42 ` AKIYAMA Nobuyuki
2004-05-26 20:34 ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-26 21:04 ` Mikael Pettersson
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