[linux-lvm] Server Crashes Sometimes

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

> I have heard of hardware that raised NMI in normal operation as a kind
> of highest priority interrupt.  However, such hardware is generally
> equivalent to broken.

OT: the linux-ecc project trapped NMI from memory errors and mapped out bad
memory pages (with a persistent map) so that bad memory could be used
reliably.  So there are legitimate uses for NMI in normal operation. 
Debuggers can also use NMI.

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