Re: 6.0-CURRENT SNAP004 hangs on amr (long)

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:00:02 -0600
Wilkinson, Alex wrote:

>     0n Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:10:29AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: 
> 
>     >I wonder if the AMR interrupt is getting routed to the ata interrupt 
>     >pins.  With the ata driver enabled, the OS gets stuck in an infinite
>     >loop of trying to service what it thinks in an ata interrupt.  With
>     >the ata driver disabled, the ata interrupt lines stay disabled and the
>     >OS sees nothing.  Would it be possible to send an NMI to the machine
>     >while it's hung with the ata driver enabled?  If not, we can probably
>     >drop some simple printf into the ata interrupt handler.
> 
> Curious, how does one send a Non-Maskable-Interupt in FreeBSD ?
> 
>  -aW

NMI's are sent by the hardware and received by the OS.  Some 
server-class motherboards have NMI switches on them.  In the ISA
days, it was possible to trigger an NMI by shorting 2 particular
pins in an ISA slot.

Scott
Received on Wed Jul 06 2005 - 23:04:03 UTC

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