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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:11:55 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb-2.6.27-rc2-ia32-08-07-08.patch
From: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
To: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
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> Jeff,
>
> 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.
>
> 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?

Yep.

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

>
> Thanks
>
> Parag
>


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