On 22 Aug, Salam Farhat wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:33 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 07:06:58 -0400, Salam Farhat said:
I am using a kernel module that I modified slightly to work on my current kernel version. It is running on a virtual machine and on a heavy load it goes into an infinite loop and freezes the system. I can tell that the virtual machine is using 100% of its assigned cpu.
Try giving the VM a second virtual CPU, if you have only one CPU and it gets hung sufficiently hard, the debugging stuff won't have a chance to run.
Oh, and make sure you configure your kernel for SMP.
It has 4 cores and kernel is already configured for smp.
Sysrq is a pretty cool option, but other than reboot almost no other commands run including 'e', 'f', ;i;.
It seems I might have to resort to debugging by the process of elimination (removing code until it doesn't hang and so on.. ).
Any other ideas I would appreciate it. If you use qemu-kvm to run your VM, you could try to use gdb to debug your kernel running inside of VM.
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