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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:29:04 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: j_kernel@hoblitt.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11543] New: kernel panic: softlockup in
	tick_periodic() ???
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[Ingo Molnar - Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 03:13:06PM +0200]
| 
| > Evetually nmi_watchdog=2 does work right? Though it's not good that 
| > we've got 8259 spurious interrupt. Hmm...
| 
| well, nmi_watchdog=2 changes the layout of clockevent devices and easily 
| switches the system into non-highres non-dynticks mode. So it can hide 
| bugs.
| 
| 	Ingo
| 

and it does since we have nmi stuck on lapics. Still investigating.

		- Cyrill -