Larry Cohen wrote:
>
> In smp_send_stop(), I commented out the call to disable_local_APIC(),
>
> The core dumps now succeed.
>
> Note. I just read the archives and saw that the kernel patch was
> updated. I had already noticed
> the __SMP__ bug and fixed my local copy (forgot to mention this when
> talking with Matt). So I was
> really calling smp_send_stop() which called disable_local_APIC().
>
> Any ideas on why this is causing me grief?
> Is commenting out the routine going to cause other major problems?
I don't know -- I'll have to look at it more closely to
find out why (I'm tracking down another lcrash bug at the
moment from Mark Price). Unless the APIC is affecting the
IDE driver directly ...
> Also, when I finally go to use lcrash I noticed that there were no
> stack traces. Am I missing
> something here?
No stack traces at all, or no stack traces for the failing
process? I corrected a KDB patch issue earlier which caused
problems for the failing process, but not every stack trace.
> Thanks,
>
> Larry Cohen
--Matt
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