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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:23:15 -0600 (MDT) From: jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com To: jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com Cc: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.warudkar@...il.com>, jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb-2.6.27-rc2-ia32-08-07-08.patch >> Jeff, >> >> This definitely looks interesting and it even worked for me - breaking >> in couple of times, trying various commands and resuming back to X all >> works. Never tried a kernel debugger before but most things were >> obvious after I figured out that I need to be on the VT to be able to >> press break and be dropped into the debugger. >> >> That said, it triggers soft lockups on all the suspended CPUs - not a >> big deal and probably expected, but I guess that can be cured by >> touching the soft lockup watch dog or something? > > Yep. > > It does with this kprobes interface, I noticed it last night. I will run > this down. I am touching the watchdog in the keyboard handler. > > Jeff Reproduced it. It just spits out the noisy message but the system continues and the processors resume running. This is is an esoteric issue, but I will run it down. It does not happen on kernel versions prior to 2.6.26. Jeff > >> >> Thanks >> >> Parag >> > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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