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

From: Miles Lane (miles@speakeasy.org)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 03:40:44 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:

<snip>

> 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

Cool. Is there anything else I need to know in order to the UP-NMI-oopser
effectively? It sounds like it'll just force an OOPS to occur where a
deadlock might have occured in the past. Is this correct? If so, then
using it is easy and I'll just see if I can get my machines to crash.

Miles

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