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SubjectRe: [Announce] Linux Test Project
David Mansfield wrote:
> One question: how is the framework going to handle tests which cause
> pathological behavior in the kernel. For example, 'infinite' hangs in
> the MM system during OOM, or crashes (OOPSes, panics) or deadlocks
> (process stuck in 'D' state). Most often these are the results of the
> tests I tend to run.

That's a good point... you may need to hook into the NMI oopser, or use
a feature like the Linux crash dumps patch, in order to force a crash in
the case of a lockup, and then do postmortem analysis.

Jeff



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