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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 20:54:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703052054.45292.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703051242.45635.lenb@kernel.org>

On Monday 05 March 2007 18:42, Len Brown wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 07:20, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Linus,
> > 
> > Andrew sent the patch below (which is now months old and has been in -mm 
> > for some time) towards Andi's tree 4 weeks ago, but apparently it fell 
> > into a black hole there - the patch is still not upstream!
> > 
> > This is a must-have for v2.6.21
> 
> I agree.
> There are multiple machines not booting because of nmi_watchdog.
> Some of them are documented here:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7839
> 
> We used to think this was the "nolapic" bug,
> but it is actually the "nmi_watchdog=0" bug.

I thought that one was worked around by Ingo's patch to not do nmi watchdog 
during ACPI methods, wasn't it? 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-05 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-05 12:20 [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default Ingo Molnar
2007-03-05 14:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-05 17:42 ` Len Brown
2007-03-05 19:54   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-03-05 20:26     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-05 20:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-07  3:06 ` Roland Dreier
2007-03-07 14:56   ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-14  9:29 Ingo Molnar
2007-01-14 14:45 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-01-14 16:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-05 16:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-03-08 19:44   ` Avi Kivity

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