Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] watchdog: add pretimeout ioctl
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From: Alan C. <al...@lx...> - 2006-06-28 10:11:19
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Ar Maw, 2006-06-27 am 20:05 -0500, ysgrifennodd Corey Minyard: > since even if the machine is hard-locked the NMI will come through. Don't bet on that. There are a considerable number of crash stall cases where NMI will not be delivered, plus you can disable NMI if you are really sneaky and want to. The usual case NMI fails is crashed video cards. The PCI transaction stalls forever on many boards and the CPU therefore never finishes the instruction and never services the NMI Alan |