Re: Available watchdog test cases
Rusty Lynch (rusty@linux.co.intel.com)
09 Mar 2003 21:23:08 -0800
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 01:40, Paul Rolland wrote:
> Just a quick question : is there an easy to force the kernel to Oops,
> to make sure that the watchdog will even be working under such
> conditions ?
>
> I know people are all trying to avoid Oops... but I think the testplan
> should include that too...
>
> Regards,
> Paul
You can write a kernel module that when loaded will disable all
interrupts and sit and spin, or even easier just call panic().
--rustyl
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