Trigger a Kernel Panic on AWS EC2 Nitro Instances by NMI method.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to generate a Vmcore of the hung system on the RHEL server resides on the AWS Nitro platform.
  • How to send a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) on the RHEL Nitro Instance on AWS platform.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • AWS Nitro Platform(C,M,R,T,Z series)
    e.g- C5, C5d, C5n, i3.metal, I3en, M5, M5a, M5ad, M5d, p3dn.24xlarge, R5, R5a, R5ad, R5d, T3, T3a, and Z1d, except A1 (Arm-based)

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