Re: NMI watchdog question

[Pallai Roland]

Robert Hancock wrote:
>> Pallai Roland wrote:
>> [...]
>> I'm playing with the NMI watchdog (nmi_watchdog=1) on a reproductable
>> hard lockup (no keyboard, etc) but seems like it doesn't works and I
>> can't understand why, please explain to me the possible causes.. I
>> belive it should work in this situation..
>
> The NMI watchdog only triggers if something is blocking interrupts from
> getting through - if timer interrupts are still happening it won't
> activate. You can try Alt-Sysrq-T to get a traceback of where the
> current process is stuck..

 the keyboard is dead (no num lock, no sysrq) just like the serial port,
the network, etc..


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