IRQ handling with IRQs disabled : Overflow ------------------------------------------ llm07:/home/murali/dtt_tools # ./ttutils set -p INT_HARDWARE_ENTRY -t overflow U need to give the command two times.. otherwise it wont work. llm07:/proc # ls -l vmcore -r-------- 1 root root 5233509064 Mar 29 07:57 vmcore llm07:/proc # gdb /home/murali/linux-2.6.16/vmlinux-1M vmcore GNU gdb 6.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/tls/libthread_db.so.1". #0 0xffffffff80251297 in crash_kexec (regs=0x0) at kexec.h:64 64 kexec.h: No such file or directory. in kexec.h (gdb) info regs Undefined info command: "regs". Try "help info". (gdb) info registers rax 0x0 0 rbx 0xffff8100b7afd000 -139634894974976 rcx 0x40000 262144 rdx 0xdad6aa 14341802 rsi 0x246 582 rdi 0x0 0 rbp 0xffffffff805a3180 0xffffffff805a3180 rsp 0xffffffff806a3e28 0xffffffff806a3e28 r8 0xffffffff 4294967295 r9 0x7 7 r10 0x0 0 r11 0x0 0 r12 0x0 0 r13 0x9 9 r14 0x0 0 r15 0xffffffff805a3180 -2141572736 rip 0xffffffff80251297 0xffffffff80251297 <crash_kexec+185> eflags 0x246 582 cs 0x10 16 ss 0x18 24 ds 0x18 24 es 0x18 24 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x0 0 (gdb) info threads * 1 process 0 0xffffffff80251297 in crash_kexec (regs=0x0) at kexec.h:64 (gdb) bt #0 0xffffffff80251297 in crash_kexec (regs=0x0) at kexec.h:64 #1 0xffffffff80231162 in panic (fmt=0xffffffff80533f8e "Aiee, killing interrupt handler!") at kernel/panic.c:89 #2 0xffffffff80234721 in do_exit (code=Variable "code" is not available. ) at kernel/exit.c:855 #3 0xffffffff80504219 in do_page_fault (regs=Variable "regs" is not available. ) at arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c:560 #4 0xffffffff8020a71d in error_sti () at cpumask.h:183 #5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #6 0xffff81000c003800 in ?? () #7 0x0000000021a8c9e4 in ?? () #8 0x0000000080209dce in ?? () #9 0xffffffff806a4280 in boot_cpu_stack () #10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #12 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #13 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #14 0xffffffff806a42b4 in boot_cpu_stack () #15 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #16 0x0000000000000001 in ?? () #17 0xffffffff806a42a8 in boot_cpu_stack () #18 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #19 0xffff81000c004c20 in ?? () #20 0xffffffffffffffff in ?? () #21 0xffffffff80229bd8 in find_busiest_group (sd=Cannot access memory at address 0x80209d9e ) at bitops.h:243 Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb)