obtaining a minidump from panic() called from NMI handler

[Julian Elischer]

On 6/13/15 10:01 PM, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
>> On 13 Jun 2015, at 09:17, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>>> could it be that more than one CPUs get the NMI at the same time?
>>> i guess, its possible. is there an easy way to check for that?
>> hard code checks in the code so that all except the first do something different.
>> (even only as a debug check).. like write to some location and loop...
> How about just something to the effect of..
> if (curcpu != cpu0)
> 	while (1)
> 		;

well, use 'pause' in the loop to save power. or even halt maybe.. 
(whatever the idle loop uses)
and write something to an array ( stopped_by_nmi[curcpu-index] ) on 
entering the code
so the base processor can see what processors entered it.
(names not correct)
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