On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Robin Holt wrote: > Is there any way on typical motherboards to send an NMI? On Altix boxes, > we can use the system controller to send an NMI. I have found some > motherboards appear to have an NMI line. Is there anything like that > on i386? Maybe I am missing the issue entirely. Does deadlock inside > an IRQ handler seem plausible?
There are various ways possible to send an NMI on a typical i386 box of these days; the easiest is probably the NMI watchdog -- see the "nmi_watchdog" kernel option. Maciej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
