Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 May 2005 08:48:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NMI watchdog config option (was: Re: [PATCH] NMI lockup and AltSysRq-P dumping calltraces on _all_ cpus via NMI IPI) |
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On Tue, 17 May 2005, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > > BTW, why NMI watchdog is disabled by default? We constantly making it on > by default in our kernels and had no problems with it. > I send a patch attached which tunes NMI watchdog by config option...
I really don't want NMI watchdogs enabled by default. It's historically been _very_ fragile on some systems. Whether that has been due to harware or sw bugs, I dunno, but it's definitely been problematic.
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