Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb-2.6.27-rc2-ia32-08-07-08.patch

[jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com]

>> Jeff,
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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> Yep.
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> 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

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