infinite loop in kernel

Nicolas Souchu nsouch at free.fr
Mon Apr 21 13:25:51 PDT 2003


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 12:15:27AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030413223656.A21075 at armor.free.fr>, Nicolas Souchu writes:
> >
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >I'm trying to debug some infinite loop in the kernel. I guess
> >this is the problem since key interrupts are still working but
> >the system does not respond otherwise.
> >
> >Unfortunatly, breaking in the debugger only gives my the
> >trace of the kbd intr thread...
> >
> >Which data structure should I check?
> 
> Use "ps" in DDB to see which processes are runnable for instance.

Any hint on how to interpret it?

The scheduler interrupts are certainly working, I could certainly
break in it and see what is being currently scheduled?

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