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Message-ID: <20070223113957.GA3111@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:39:57 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: tglx@...utronix.de, dwalker@...sta.com,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > I already bisected this on my old pIII, which has the same problem:
> > clockevents-i386-drivers.patch
>
> yes - we know what the problem is (and will fix it): the stopping of the
> PIT - nmi_watchdog=1 is hack to use the IO-APIC's PIT pin to also signal
> NMIs.
>
> Just to clarify, this problem does not occur if HIGH_RES_TIMERS is
> off, correct?
s/does not occur/does occur/
we switch off the PIT whenever we can.
Ingo
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