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* [PATCH][2.4.22-pre3] minor x86-64 boot-options.txt update
@ 2003-07-06 22:40 Mikael Pettersson
  2003-07-07  8:59 ` Andi Kleen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mikael Pettersson @ 2003-07-06 22:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ak; +Cc: linux-kernel

Minor documentation update. If we need to tell users that
nmi_watchdog=2 claims one performance counter, we should
tell them that the local APIC LVTPC vector is claimed too.

/Mikael

--- linux-2.4.22-pre3/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt.~1~	2003-07-06 18:37:42.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.22-pre3/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt	2003-07-06 19:21:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@
   0 don't use an NMI watchdog
   1 use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
   2 use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using a performance counter. Note
-  This will use one performance counter.
+  This will use one performance counter and the local APIC's performance
+  counter vector.
 
 Idle loop
 

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* Re: [PATCH][2.4.22-pre3] minor x86-64 boot-options.txt update
  2003-07-06 22:40 [PATCH][2.4.22-pre3] minor x86-64 boot-options.txt update Mikael Pettersson
@ 2003-07-07  8:59 ` Andi Kleen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andi Kleen @ 2003-07-07  8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mikael Pettersson; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 00:40:55 +0200 (MEST)
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> wrote:


> --- linux-2.4.22-pre3/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt.~1~	2003-07-06 18:37:42.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.4.22-pre3/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt	2003-07-06 19:21:06.000000000 +0200
> @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@
>    0 don't use an NMI watchdog
>    1 use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
>    2 use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using a performance counter. Note
> -  This will use one performance counter.
> +  This will use one performance counter and the local APIC's performance
> +  counter vector.

Thanks merged. 

BTW 1 does not seem to work, but I have not tracked it down yet. It would
be better to just default to 1.

-Andi


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