[SOLVED] Need to crash the kernel for testing.

[Piko]

I was wondering if anyone knows were I can find a test driver for crashing the Linux kernel. I need to send it into a kernel panic, so I can test the LKCD. I want to see how the LKCD works.

I think I'm going to have to make a custom driver to test it.

[GliderMike]

Hey, we found one thing Windows does better than Linux :-)

[tucolino]

I think you get a panic if you dont have / when booting... i think that was the only time i was able to panic the kernel... dont remember well though.

[phlipant]

I think you get a panic if you dont have / when booting... i think that was the only time i was able to panic the kernel... dont remember well though.


Hmmm, sounds like a job for rm -rf :D

[Piko]

Yeah, but without a "/" mount I won't get the /var/dump made, and I kind of need that. So it looks like I'm going to have to try out the new Linux Driver Developer Kit.

[tucolino]

Yeah, but without a "/" mount I won't get the /var/dump made, and I kind of need that. So it looks like I'm going to have to try out the new Linux Driver Developer Kit.

i think in that case you could just leave /var then

[Piko]

Well I got it.

I made a simple module, that on int crash_init() calls the kernel to go into panic().

$ insmod crash.ko

.....Did it work? Well, oh, it's frozen.............. IT WORKED! :D

Now I just need to get the kernel built with LKCD activated.

All this work to get Linux to crash geeeeeeeez, I should just go back to Windows. :p