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> On 13 Jun 2015, at 09:17, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
>>> 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 !=3D cpu0)
	while (1)
		;

--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards is that there
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