Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:03:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] enabling APIC and NMI watchdog on UP systems |
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Miles Lane wrote:
> Cool. Is there anything else I need to know in order to the > UP-NMI-oopser effectively? It sounds like it'll just force an OOPS to > occur where a deadlock might have occured in the past. Is this > correct? If so, then using it is easy and I'll just see if I can get > my machines to crash.
yes, it's merged into the IOAPIC based NMI oopser. Usage is completely automatic - it will oops if a hard lockup has occured. (ie. if a processor does not server interrupts for more than 5 seconds.) I have tested this by artificially causing kernel lockups, and it works here as expected.
so it's a simple 'apply, compile, reboot' thing.
Ingo
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