If the system locks up without any debug information you can say Y
here to make it possible to dump an OOPS with an external NMI.
+config NO_SEGFAULT_TERMINATION
+ bool "Keep segfaulting processes"
+ help
+ Place segfaulting user mode processes on a wait queue instead of
+ delivering a terminating SIGSEGV to allow debugging with gdb.
+
endmenu
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
extern int find_fixup_code(struct pt_regs *);
/* User mode accesses just cause a SIGSEGV */
if (user_mode(regs)) {
+ printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s (pid %d) segfaults for page "
+ "address %08lx at pc %08lx\n",
+ tsk->comm, tsk->pid,
+ address, instruction_pointer(regs));
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_SEGFAULT_TERMINATION
+ DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(wq);
+ wait_event_interruptible(wq, 0 == 1);
+#else
info.si_signo = SIGSEGV;
info.si_errno = 0;
/* info.si_code has been set above */
info.si_addr = (void *)address;
force_sig_info(SIGSEGV, &info, tsk);
- printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s (pid %d) segfaults for page "
- "address %08lx at pc %08lx\n",
- tsk->comm, tsk->pid, address, instruction_pointer(regs));
+#endif
return;
}