Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 12:29, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, since this is called when the kernel crashes, it's
> > impossible for me to capture any messages prior to this spam, if there
> > even are any.
>
> this is where serial logging (or netconsole/netlogging) may be useful.
>
> do you have DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW and latency tracing still enabled?  The
> combination of those two options is pretty good at detecting stack
> overflows. Also, you might want to enable CONFIG_4KSTACKS, that too
> disturbs the stack layout enough so that the error message may make it
> to the console.

I already have 4KSTACKS on. Latency tracing is enabled, but STACKOVERFLOW 
isn't; I'll just reenable everything again until we fix this. Do you think if 
I removed the printk() line I might get some useful information, before it 
does the stack trace?

I'm happy enough to work with this indefinitely now, at least I have a certain 
cause for the lockups, so I can continue to use the machine for R&D.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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