Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:32:27 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] Linux Test Project |
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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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