Re: [5/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

Daniel Walker
2007-03-05T16:44:47Z

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:27 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
>
> > > > FYI, this is not a "wont boot" problem, this should be a "NMI
> > > > watchdog does not work" problem - which has far lower severity.
> > > > Also, Thomas did a fix for this which is now in -mm.
> > >
> > > yup, you should be able to cross this one off, Adrian. The fix
> > > worked for me, at least.
> >
> > I didn't see a fix for this one go by .. I'll check the usual places I
> > guess ..
>
> find it below.

This fix gets the NMI to tick like the timer (in /proc/interrupts) ..
However, now that it's ticking I don't think it's actually working
properly ..

I used this simple test case given by you a long time ago,

main ()
{
iopl(3);
for (;;)
asm("cli");

}

This doesn't look like a regression tho, 2.6.19-rc6 has the same
behavior ..

Daniel