Re: Available watchdog test cases

Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap@osdl.org)
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:35:43 -0800 (PST)


> Hello,
>
>> > I know people are all trying to avoid Oops... but I think
>> the testplan
>> > should include that too...
>>
>> You can write a kernel module that when loaded will disable
>> all interrupts and sit and spin, or even easier just call panic().
>>
> Too easy I should have thought about it myself...

Steve Hemminger of OSDL did one of these. You can get it at
www.osdl.org/archive/rddunlap/tools/dump_test.c
if you are interested. (I just put it there and there is a
15-minute rsync delay...)

~Randy

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