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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:03:45 +0900 (JST)
From:      Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        sbruno@FreeBSD.org, sean_bruno@yahoo.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NMI on shutdown
Message-ID:  <20130729.040345.660732812562263524.hrs@allbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1374942794.1431.37.camel@localhost>
References:  <20130727.130641.1045344958497890348.hrs@allbsd.org> <1374942794.1431.37.camel@localhost>

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Sean Bruno <sean_bruno@yahoo.com> wrote
  in <1374942794.1431.37.camel@localhost>:

se> :-)  I just spent the week looking at something that looks like this on
se> my Dell machines.  In my testing the NMI EISA problem seems to be coming
se> from the fact that IPMI pokes at both the ACPI and ISA interfaces to the
se> IPMI controller resulting in an attempt to create /dev/ipmi0
se> and /dev/ipmi1.
se>
se> Somewhere in the recent past (affects 9 as well) the ACPI and ISA IPMI
se> device nodes where children of the same parent and
se> ipmi_isa.c::ipmi_isa_identitfy() would see the ACPI attachment and do
se> nothing.  Now the two interfaces have different parents in the device
se> tree.
se>
se> On bce(4) based systems, even if not using IPMI, this seems to
se> crash/confuse older version of the management firmware and yield results
se> similar to what you see.
se>
se> I've just commited a tested fix from Yahoo on this that Peter and I
se> worked out.  see svn R 253708

 Hmm, in my case the symptom does not depend on ipmi(4) (ipmi.ko was
 not loaded).  I tried the patch in r253708 on stable/9 in both cases
 of loading the ipmi.ko or not loading it, but there was no
 difference.

 Did NMI happen on you box only when ipmi.ko was loaded?

-- Hiroki

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