On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > kdb has to completely disable the nmi counter while it is in control. > All interrupts are disabled, all but one cpus are spinning, the > control cpu does busy wait while it polls the input devices. With > that model there is no alternative to a complete disable. it sure has an alternative. The 'cpus spinning' code calls touch_nmi() within the busy loop, the polling code on the control CPU too. This is sure more robust and catches lockup bugs in kdb too ... Ingo - 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/
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