Re: CURRENT is freezing again ...

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sheldon Hearn writes:
>: The problem with a hard lock-up out of which you can't escape into the
>: debugger is that it makes meaningful bug reports impossible.  My non-SMP
>: workstation has exhibited apparently arbitrary lock-ups since the advent
>: of SMPng.
>
>You can also short IOCHK to ground to get an NMI which kicks you into
>the debugger, even in an interrupt context.

Bad news for you warner:  On a too large sample of my newer
motherboards this doesn't work anymore :-(

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