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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:06:51 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> Cc: Diego Woitasen <diego@...tasen.com.ar>, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Subject: Re: BUG: High resolution timer/dynticks bug On Tue 2008-03-04 12:14:38, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Just turn off NMI watchdog? Pulling the power cable causes the SMM trap, > > which takes _long_ to execute, potentially tickling NMI watchdog? > > By _long_ you mean leaving the system for 5 seconds with irqs disabled? Well, I've seen >500msec. 5sec is a bit much, but... BIOS writers are crazy, right? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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