Hmm... another thing you could try is hooking the NMI. I'm not sure about how KDB halts the kernel. It's probably by hooking the NMI. I can't tell unless I examine KDB's source myself. Just a first guess. -- Derek. On Tue, 14 May 2002, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:37:56PM -0400, Bloch, Jack wrote: > > I am a relatively new Linux Hacker (< 6 months). I and a colleague have > > created a Compact PCI embedded system for which we developed some specific > > HW. In my device driver, it is possible that the HW will trigger an > > interrupt for a special case. In this case I want to halt the Linux OS. How > > can I do this from within my ISR? > > Halt? Like stop everything completly? > > If so, take a look at how kdb works when you use it to interrupt the > kernel. That should be what you need to do too. > > Hope this helps, > > greg k-h > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
