Debug System Hang with “magic SysRq key"

 

An indispensable tool for many lockups is the “magic SysRq key,” which is available
on most architectures. Magic SysRq is invoked with the combination of the Alt and
SysRq keys on the PC keyboard, or with other special keys on other platforms (see
Documentation/sysrq.txt for details), and is available on the serial console as well. A
third key, pressed along with these two, performs one of a number of useful actions:

r Turns off keyboard raw mode; useful in situations where a crashed application
(such as the X server) may have left your keyboard in a strange state.

k Invokes the “secure attention key” (SAK) function. SAK kills all processes running
on the current console, leaving you with a clean terminal.

s Performs an emergency synchronization of all disks.

u Umount. Attempts to remount all disks in a read-only mode. This operation,
usually invoked immediately after s, can save a lot of filesystem checking time in
cases where the system is in serious trouble.

 

b Boot. Immediately reboots the system. Be sure to synchronize and remount the
disks first.

p Prints processor registers information.

t Prints the current task list.

m Prints memory information.

 

Other magic SysRq functions exist; see sysrq.txt in the Documentation directory of
the kernel source for the full list.

 

这个功能需要在kernel的配置文件中指定，并编译。

 

Magic SysRq may be disabled at runtime with a command such as the following:
        echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq