Re: conditional enter to DDB on busy buffers
At Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:41:08 +0000,
David Rhodus wrote:
>
> Richard Nyberg wrote:
> > Since I don't have a serial console I don't want my computer
> > to risk entering the debugger at reboot if it cannot sync its buffers.
> > The patch at the URL below checks the "debugger_on_panic" sysctl to
> > conditionalize use of the debugger.
> >
> > http://people.su.se/~rnyberg/dfly/busy_buffer_ddb.diff
> >
> > Happy hacking!
> > -Richard
> >
>
> Is this a problem you are currently seeing ? If so can you get a dump of
> the system so we can look at that situation and diagnose the problem.
Yes I see it on my SMP machine, I've already uploaded a dump to leaf.
> If you don't want to deal with any debugging you should remove 'options
> DDB' from your kernel config file. This is a problem that pops up from
> time to time on sudo random hardware. Normally there are several reports
> that will fly by the list before anyone will break to a debugger to give
> us a traceback.
It's not that I don't want to deal with debugging, it's just that I want
to be able to reboot a computer remotely. The way I accomplished that
may be wrong, but I still think there should be a safe way to it.
-Richard
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