Timer processing + loop: -------------------------- llm07:/home/murali/dtt_tools # ./ttutils set -p TIMERADD -t loop -c 100 llm07:/proc # ls -l vmcore -r-------- 1 root root 5233509408 Mar 31 02:43 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 threads 2 process 2661 acquire_console_sem () at kernel/printk.c:714 * 1 process 10287 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 0xffffffff80502ba1 in die_nmi (str=Variable "str" is not available. ) at arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:463 #4 0xffffffff8050303b in nmi_watchdog_tick (regs=Variable "regs" is not available. ) at arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c:495 #5 0xffffffff805029f6 in default_do_nmi (regs=Variable "regs" is not available. ) at arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:647 #6 0xffffffff80502f33 in do_nmi (regs=Variable "regs" is not available. ) at arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c:531 #7 0xffffffff805025c3 in nmi () at system.h:182 #8 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #9 0x0000023fec32f43c in ?? () #10 0xffff81000c004ec0 in ?? () #11 0xffff8100ba61cdb0 in ?? () #12 0xffff81000c004ec0 in ?? () #13 0xffff81000c004ec0 in ?? () #14 0xffff8100b01b5d98 in ?? () #15 0x00007fff6085c110 in ?? () #16 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #17 0xffffffff805aaaa8 in log_wait () #18 0x000000000000000d in ?? () #19 0xffffffff805aaaa8 in log_wait () #20 0xffffffff805aaaa8 in log_wait () #21 0x0000000000000046 in ?? () #22 0xffffffff805aaaa0 in console_printk () #23 0xffffffffffffffff in ?? () #24 0xffffffff80472d74 in cpoint_default_exit (hook=Variable "hook" is not available. ) at drivers/dtt/khdtt.c:316 #25 0x0000000000000010 in ?? () #26 0x0000000000000092 in ?? () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #27 0xffff8100b01b5e78 in ?? () #28 0x0000000000000018 in ?? () #29 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #30 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #31 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #32 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #33 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #34 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #35 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #36 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #37 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #38 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () (gdb) info registers rax 0x0 0 rbx 0xffff8100bbf8f800 -139634823071744 rcx 0x40000 262144 rdx 0x6965 26981 rsi 0x246 582 rdi 0x0 0 rbp 0xffff8100b176e190 0xffff8100b176e190 rsp 0xffffffff806a7c88 0xffffffff806a7c88 r8 0x2 2 r9 0x0 0 r10 0x0 0 r11 0xffffffff806c4ea1 -2140385631 r12 0xffffffff806a7f58 -2140504232 r13 0xb 11 r14 0x23fec32f43c 2473568957500 r15 0x0 0 rip 0xffffffff80251297 0xffffffff80251297 <crash_kexec+185> eflags 0x246 582 cs 0x10 16 ss 0x18 24 ds 0x0 0 es 0x0 0 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x0 0