From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Subject: [RFC] Fix NMI watchdog documentation Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 21:07:02 +0200 Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3ECFC2D6.2020007@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-smp@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Hello, Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt does not say which CONFIG_XYZ option has to be enabled to use the NMI watchdog, but it mentions that IO-APIC is somewhat related. Documentation/Configure.help is equally unclear. The NMI watchdog is mentioned as related to CONFIG_SMP, and the help text for CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC says: "The local APIC supports [..] the NMI watchdog" That does not necessarily mean that NMI is compiled in once local APIC support is selected. Can someone please shed some light on this issue? I'm willing to create a patch to fix the docs once I know if the NMI watchdog is compiled in alsways or on what it depends. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/