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On Wed, Sep 27 2023 at 19:17, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 09:58:23AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>  
>> -	/* No point to wait here. The CPUs will all wait in stop_machine(). */
>> +	touch_nmi_watchdog();
>
> AFAICT, you're touching the NMI watchdog even in the !use_nmi case.

Yes, we need that also for the non-NMI case because this runs in
stop-machine.