linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:41:11 +0100
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 09:19 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > At this point the PIT / HPET _is_ active and incrementing jiffies. The
> > switch to local apic timers happens afterwards. 
> 
> Could be the switch over then which confuses the NMI . 

Why? The switch just stops the PIT/HPET. It does not fiddle with IO_APIC
and friends at all.

> ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/dwalker/tglx/

Nothing obvious. Bisect time :(

	tglx


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