[LITMUS^RT] RFC: record interrupt interference with Feather-Trace

[Andrea Bastoni]

On 01/24/2012 02:19 PM, Glenn Elliott wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Björn Brandenburg wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 24, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Glenn Elliott wrote:
>>
>>> Will this only pick up NMIs, or all interrupts?
>>
>> Currently, it only traces regular interrupts, not NMIs. (And you can't trace SMIs afaik.)
>>
>> Adding support for NMIs should be easy, but is more difficult to test.
>>
>> - Björn
>>
> 
> Bonham has an "NMI" button on the front of it!

I bet you don't want to press the "NMI" button very fast and very often, right? ;)

How many power-management-BIOS options are there on Bonham? Enabling them all
(and placing a lot of load on the machine) might be a good way to test the patch!

Thanks,

- Andrea