Bug 670721 - spelling mistake in section "3.3. Non-maskable interrupts"
Summary: spelling mistake in section "3.3. Non-maskable interrupts"
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Realtime_Reference_Guide
Version: 1.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: 1.3.2
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Assignee: Alison Young
QA Contact: Petr Matousek
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Reported: 2011-01-19 04:34 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:36 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-02-14 01:36:18 UTC
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Description Murray McAllister 2011-01-19 04:34:02 UTC
Description of problem:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_MRG/1.3/html/Realtime_Reference_Guide/sect-Realtime_Reference_Guide-Hardware_interrupts-Non_maskable_interrupts.html

Second paragraph, second sentence, "...a critical error has ocurred, and...".

Additional info:
Also, I am not sure if the following (first paragraph of the above link) is correct:

"A non-maskable interrupt (NMI) cannot be ignored, and are..."

I think the "are" should be an "is".

Thanks.

Comment 1 Lana Brindley 2011-02-03 00:31:32 UTC
This will be handled as part of the 1.3.2 tech review.

LKB

Comment 2 Alison Young 2011-02-03 05:47:08 UTC
Changed in revision 2.3 to:
<para>
  NMIs are normally delivered over a separate interrupt line. When an NMI is received by the CPU, it indicates that a critical error has occurred, and that the system is probably about to crash. The NMI is generally the best indication of what might have caused the problem.
</para>

<para>
  An interrupt is said to be <firstterm>masked</firstterm> when it has been disabled, or when the CPU has been instructed to ignore it. A <firstterm>non-maskable interrupt</firstterm> (NMI) cannot be ignored, and is generally used only for critical hardware errors.
</para>

Build: Red_Hat_Enterprise_MRG-Realtime_Reference_Guide-1.3-web-en-US-2-3.el5

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2011-02-10 09:47:37 UTC
The issue has been fixed.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.3 - Realtime Reference Guide
Revision 2.3

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