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From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - fix incorrect NMI watchdog used by default
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 08:42:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g1qvlh$3dv$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080528190047.GE6910@cvg

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> The commit
> 
> commit 4b82b277707a39b97271439c475f186f63ec4692
> Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> Date:   Sat May 24 19:36:35 2008 +0400
> 
> set nmi_watchdog to NMI_IO_APIC as by default. This causes hangs on some
> machines with buggy watchdogs. Fix it - i.e. restore old behaviour.

Thanks for fixing this. Just for the record, the problem also seemed to
depend on the ACPI Video option. Removing that also stopped the problem...
However I can confirm that I don't have a boot hang with next-0530.

-- 
Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-31  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-28 19:00 [PATCH] x86: nmi - fix incorrect NMI watchdog used by default Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-28 19:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-30 12:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-30 14:44   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-30 15:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-31  7:42 ` Sitsofe Wheeler [this message]
2008-05-31  9:15   ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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