What is the NMI used for?
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What is the NMI used for?
An NMI is often used when response time is critical or when an interrupt should never be disabled during normal system operation. Such uses include reporting non-recoverable hardware errors, system debugging and profiling, and handling of special cases like system resets.
How do I turn off NMI?
Steps
- From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) > Advanced Options > Advanced System ROM Options > NMI Debug Button and press Enter.
- Select a setting and press Enter. a. Enabled. b. Disabled.
- Press F10.
How do you stop the watchdog?
Starting and Stopping Watchdog You can write the character V into /dev/watchdog and then close the file. This should stop the watchdog.
What is NMI give example?
Common examples of non-maskable interrupt include types of internal system chipset errors, memory corruption problems, parity errors and high-level errors needing immediate attention.
What is an interrupt mask?
A central processing unit (CPU) feature that allows the computer to ignore (mask) an interrupt request until the mask bit is disabled.
How will you mask an interrupt in 8086?
The 8086 has two hardware interrupt pins, i.e. NMI and INTR. NMI is a non-maskable interrupt and INTR is a maskable interrupt having lower priority. One more interrupt pin associated is INTA called interrupt acknowledge.
Can NMI be disabled?
NMI interrupts can be disabled with external circuitry. (Software must guarantee that no exceptions or interrupts are generated during the mode switching operation.)
Which interrupt is non-maskable?
Non-Maskable Interrupts are those which cannot be disabled or ignored by microprocessor. TRAP is a non-maskable interrupt. It consists of both level as well as edge triggering and is used in critical power failure conditions.
Should I disable watchdog?
In many microprocessor applications where a watchdog supervisor, such as the TPS3306, is required, it may be necessary to disable the watchdog. This is particularly true when software boot times exceed the watchdog time-out period.
What is Dev watchdog?
A Watchdog Timer (WDT) is a hardware circuit that can reset the computer system in case of a software fault. Usually a userspace daemon will notify the kernel watchdog driver via the /dev/watchdog special device file that userspace is still alive, at regular intervals.
Is trap non-maskable interrupt?
TRAP is a non-maskable interrupt. It consists of both level as well as edge triggering and is used in critical power failure conditions.
Why do we need interrupt masking?
It prepares the processor registers and everything else that needs to be done before it lets a thread run so that the environment for that process and thread is set up. Then, before letting that thread run, it sets a timer interrupt to be raised after the time it intends to let the thread have on the CPU elapses.
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