Re: [PATCH] softdog - panic instead of reboot, kernel 2.6.22.9

2007-10-11 Thread Ken Sugawara
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 wi

Re: [PATCH] softdog - panic instead of reboot, kernel 2.6.22.9

2007-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> 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

[PATCH] softdog - panic instead of reboot, kernel 2.6.22.9

2007-10-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From Ken Sugawara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Add an option to softdog to panic upon timer expiration instead of reboot. Signed-off-by: Ken Sugawara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch is intended to help increase the chance of postmortem analysis in the event of silent system hang where i