Patch is attached.  Thanks.

-Corey

Andi Kleen wrote:

>>>But in this case it isnt. Instead of all this complexity 
>>>just remove the NMI reassert code from the NMI handler.
>>>It is oudated and mostly useless on modern systems anyways.
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>>"mostly useless" and "completely useless" are two different things.
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>It's completely useless (double checked the AMD8111 and ICH5 data sheets)
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>There is nothing that should ever clear the NMI bit in this register.
>In fact the ICH5 datasheet even explicitely says software should
>never touch this bit. 
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>It may have some meaning in ancient ISA chipsets, but that is 
>of no concern on x86-64.
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>>Do you want me to submit a patch that simply removes this?
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>Yes, please.
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>-Andi
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