Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2007 20:54:45 +0100 |
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On Monday 05 March 2007 18:42, Len Brown wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007 07:20, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Linus, > > > > Andrew sent the patch below (which is now months old and has been in -mm > > for some time) towards Andi's tree 4 weeks ago, but apparently it fell > > into a black hole there - the patch is still not upstream! > > > > This is a must-have for v2.6.21 > > I agree. > There are multiple machines not booting because of nmi_watchdog. > Some of them are documented here: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7839 > > We used to think this was the "nolapic" bug, > but it is actually the "nmi_watchdog=0" bug.
I thought that one was worked around by Ingo's patch to not do nmi watchdog during ACPI methods, wasn't it?
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