Re: [patch] enabling APIC and NMI watchdog on UP systems

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 15:50:15 EST


On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Miles Lane wrote:

> how best to extract useful debugging information from the deadlocked
> systems. Any help you can give in this regard would be much
> appreciated. I have used SysRq successfully, but I don't know how to
> use the information I am given to find the salient points.

if SysRq works then this is a 'soft lockup', and if you want to debug this
then you should capture the EIP values from RightAlt+ScrLk output, thats
the place where it locks up. The UP-NMI-oopser will not help.

        Ingo

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