linux-kernel - debugging an oops that kills the system

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:14:02 -0400
From:	"Dan Upton" <upton.dan.linux@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: debugging an oops that kills the system

Hi all,

I'm hoping for some pointers on debugging an oops that ultimately
hangs the system.  I'm doing some scheduler work and I can fairly
reliably duplicate the error on my machine, but the output is too
large for one screen and the system becomes unresponsive after the
crash so I can't scroll the console.  I tried purchasing a  USB->DB9
cable to log to a remote terminal, but so far I haven't had any luck
getting that to work.  Using kdump/kexec doesn't work either--I got
the second kernel to boot successfully using the magic sysrq example
in the documentation, but the second kernel doesn't boot with my
actual crash.  Any other suggestions for what I might do?

Thanks,
-dan
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