RE: spinlock on uniprocessor systems

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Fawad,

> > When the kernel crashes, kernel prints out the log explaining the
error.
> > I have a problem taking those messages when the kernel crashes.
> > When we reboot the system, I do find it in the "/var/log/messages"?
> > Where can I find those?
> 
> After you won't able to find any log messeges ! Try to test this on
> kernel compiled with kdb so that when you got crash it will go into
> kdb and will give you prompt to take a look at the log messages !
> (Actually I can't test it currently on uni-processor kernel with
> preemption enabled and kdb as I don't have machine ready for this now
> :( )
 
I do not have a similar kind of setup but I will try to build one now.

> >
> > I have tried it on Uni-processor machine.
> >
> 
> Means you can only get preemption (enabling SMP is of no use for you).
> Are you testing from the terminal without running X ? or getting this
> problem with X running ?

Yes, you are right. I am testing it by shifting between F1, F2, ...
terminals.

Regards,
Mukund Jampala



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