Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:38:36 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86_64: do not enable the NMI watchdog by default |
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:30:11 +0000 Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:11:35 +0100 > Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > > or via the nmi_watchdog=1 or nmi_watchdog=2 boot options. > > > > build and boot tested on an Athlon64 box. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > > Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
metoo. I'm really struggling to recall an occasion on which the NMI watchdog helped diagnose or fix a bug. The usual scenario nowadays is that I ask a reporter to enable NMI watchdog and for various reasons (mostly mysterious) no useful information comes of it.
If it's causing machines to go down then the current tradeoff doesn't seem right.
But _is_ it causing machines to go down, after the ACPI fix?
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