What is the exected behavior with the NMI button?

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Sean Bruno <seanbru at yahoo-inc.com> [100625 07:18] wrote:
> While trying to get a deadlock sorted out in the GPROF code, I attempted
> to use this fancy shmancy NMI button on my Dell server.
> 
> I noted that, not unlike the goggles, it did nothing once the system was
> deadlocked.  I noted that when the system was running normally, an NMI
> log message would be spewed to the console.
> 
> What is supposed to happen in these two cases when we toggle the NMI
> button?

If you have DDB in kernel and
machdep.panic_on_nmi: 1
machdep.kdb_on_nmi: 1
are set, you should get debugger.

-Alfred



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