Tasklet with IRQs disabled + panic : ----------------------------------- llm07:/home/murali/dtt_tools # ./ttutils set -p TASKLET -t panic -c 100 llm07:/proc # ls -l vmcore -r-------- 1 root root 5233509408 Mar 29 05:04 vmcore llm07:/proc # gdb /home/murali/linux-2.6.16/vmlinux-1 vmlinux-16M vmlinux-1M 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 0xffff81013ddfec00 -139632643675136 rcx 0xffffffff805aaaa8 -2141541720 rdx 0xffffffff805aaaa8 -2141541720 rsi 0x46 70 rdi 0x0 0 rbp 0xffffffff8073a150 0xffffffff8073a150 rsp 0xffffffff806a4d98 0xffffffff806a4d98 r8 0xffffffff805aaaa8 -2141541720 r9 0x0 0 r10 0x46 70 r11 0xffffffff806a4d68 -2140517016 r12 0xa 10 r13 0x0 0 r14 0x0 0 r15 0x0 0 rip 0xffffffff80251297 0xffffffff80251297 <crash_kexec+185> eflags 0x46 70 cs 0x10 16 ss 0x18 24 ds 0x18 24 es 0x18 24 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x0 0 (gdb) bt #0 0xffffffff80251297 in crash_kexec (regs=0x0) at kexec.h:64 #1 0xffffffff80231162 in panic (fmt=0xffffffff80576308 "dumptest") at kernel/panic.c:89 #2 0xffffffff80472d3f in cpoint_default_exit (hook=Variable "hook" is not available. ) at drivers/dtt/khdtt.c:306 #3 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #4 0xffffffff80236306 in TASKLET_hook () at kernel/softirq.c:256 #5 0xffffffff802365f8 in __do_softirq () at kernel/softirq.c:97 #6 0xffffffff8020ac26 in call_softirq () at cpumask.h:183 #7 0xffffffff806a4fa0 in boot_cpu_stack () #8 0xffffffff8020bad3 in do_softirq () at arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c:149 #9 0xffffffff8020a580 in apic_timer_interrupt () at cpumask.h:183 #10 0xffffffff80747f08 in init_thread_union () #11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #12 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()