From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753338AbYEaHpL (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 03:45:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751052AbYEaHo7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 03:44:59 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33664 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbYEaHo6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 03:44:58 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sitsofe Wheeler Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - fix incorrect NMI watchdog used by default Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 08:42:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20080528190047.GE6910@cvg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc1-cwma5-0-0-cust137.swan.cable.ntl.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > The commit > > commit 4b82b277707a39b97271439c475f186f63ec4692 > Author: Cyrill Gorcunov > 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/