Re: [RFC/SERIOUS] grilling troubled CPUs for fun and profit?

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:40:46PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
 > linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Andreas Mohr wrote:
 > 
 > >> while looking for loop places to apply cpu_relax() to, I found the
 > >> following gems:
 > >>
 > >> arch/i386/kernel/crash.c/crash_nmi_callback():
 > >>
 > >>        /* Assume hlt works */
 > >>        halt();
 > >>        for(;;);
 > >>
 > >>        return 1;
 > >> }
 > 
 > This will result in the processor burning energy again after the first
 > interrupt, won't it?

Interrupts are disabled here.

		Dave

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