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

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Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:25:11 +0900
From:	Ken Sugawara <sugaken.r3@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	wim@...ana.be, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softdog - panic instead of reboot, kernel 2.6.22.9

Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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 will fail. The NMI based debug
>(CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP) is the option you want.

Thanks for your comment.  I'll look into it, but unfortunately, most of 
our customers are running much older kernels (e.g. 2.6.9-based from 
RHEL4.x) which don't have the option, and some non-negligible number of 
them are running on non-IA platforms, whereas right now the option seems 
to be implemented only in i386 and x86_64 (correct me if I'm wrong).

Anyways, I'll try to look for a way to manually trigger NMI on their non
-IA boxes, preferably without any additional hardware.

Regards,

Ken
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