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Date:      Sat, 06 May 2000 00:13:34 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?
Message-ID:  <3913B80E.F899DCE9@softweyr.com>
References:  <200005060453.WAA59241@harmony.village.org>  <20000505122029.C29830@fw.wintelcom.net> <200005051831.LAA25307@george.lbl.gov> <200005060456.WAA59299@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <200005060453.WAA59241@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes:
> : However, it won't work if you are hacking pci hardware and manage to
> : hang the PCI bus.
> 
> Unless, of course, the trap handler is in cache as well as the
> debugger routines you need.  On rare occasions this is true, but
> almsot all the time it isn't.  There's not a good way to force it
> either since if you knew you were about to hang the pci bus, you'd not
> do the action that would hang it :-).

No cache-line-locking on x86?  Sigh.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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