==> Regarding Forcing a kernel dump from the keyboard; tds <tds@xxxxxxx> adds:
tds> LKCD, I've got a quick question about LKCD. Is it possible to force a
tds> panic from the keyboard? I don't think the alt-sysrequest "magic key"
tds> can generate a panic, but maybe you know another way.
It is trivial to implement such a mechanism via Magic Sysrq. For an
example, you can check out
http://www.missioncriticallinux.com/downloads. You're looking for the
in memory core dump patch. I'm not sure how lkcd will handle taking a
dump at interrupt level (using Magic Sysrq is in the context of an
interrupt), but you can give it a try.
Once you apply the kernel patch, the file you want to look at is
drivers/char/sysrq.c.
-Jeff
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