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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:26:05 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        sbruno@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What is the exected behavior with the NMI button?
Message-ID:  <20100908182605.GI69795@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <1277475474.2411.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <1277475474.2411.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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* Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> [100625 07:18] wrote:
> While trying to get a deadlock sorted out in the GPROF code, I attempted
> to use this fancy shmancy NMI button on my Dell server.
> 
> I noted that, not unlike the goggles, it did nothing once the system was
> deadlocked.  I noted that when the system was running normally, an NMI
> log message would be spewed to the console.
> 
> What is supposed to happen in these two cases when we toggle the NMI
> button?

If you have DDB in kernel and
machdep.panic_on_nmi: 1
machdep.kdb_on_nmi: 1
are set, you should get debugger.

-Alfred



> 
> Sean
> 
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- Alfred Perlstein
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