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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > >> Subject : i386: no boot with nmi_watchdog=1 (clockevents) >> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/21/208 >> Submitter : Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> >> Caused-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> >> commit e9e2cdb412412326c4827fc78ba27f410d837e6e >> Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> >> Status : problem is being debugged > > FYI, this is not a "wont boot" problem, this should be a "NMI watchdog > does not work" problem - which has far lower severity. Also, Thomas did > a fix for this which is now in -mm. > If a system normally runs a watchdog, and some do, then nmi would be forced on by grub.comf and the system would not boot. And if the system was counting on nmi to look for a hanging problem, "nmi does not work" would be a real problem if the failure was silent. Actually, a lack of nmi would be worse than not booting, it would be a time bomb waiting for a bad moment to hang. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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