how to freeze the 2.6 kernel on SMP m/c

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 17:24, san deep <sandeep.albur at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you please suggest  how to freeze  the 2.6 kernel(SMP m/c) with
> my own dlkm with  less number of code.
>
> I tried the below mentioned code snippet, it hangs only the terminal
> on which i executed the insmod command.
>  Please correct the below code to freeze whole kernel.
>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> #include <linux/delay.h>
>
> int init_module(void)
> {
>        spinlock_t lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
>        while (1) {
>                spin_lock(&lock);
>                msleep(100);
>         }
>        //spin_unlock(lock);
>        printk(KERN_INFO "Hello world :).\n");
>        return 0;
> }

how about calling panic()?

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