Robert Hancock wrote: >> Pallai Roland wrote: >> [...] >> I'm playing with the NMI watchdog (nmi_watchdog=1) on a reproductable >> hard lockup (no keyboard, etc) but seems like it doesn't works and I >> can't understand why, please explain to me the possible causes.. I >> belive it should work in this situation.. > > The NMI watchdog only triggers if something is blocking interrupts from > getting through - if timer interrupts are still happening it won't > activate. You can try Alt-Sysrq-T to get a traceback of where the > current process is stuck..
the keyboard is dead (no num lock, no sysrq) just like the serial port, the network, etc.. -- d - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
