linux-kernel - Re: [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default

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Message-Id: <1173106198.3218.130.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:49:57 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default


> Frankly, i find it ridiculous that i had to write more than 10 emails 
> about this stupid topic already, while i'm the original author of this 
> feature to begin with. The "do not enable by default debug features that 
> break certain systems" concept is obvious to me.


NMI breaks on some systems, esp in combination with SMM so

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> for both 32 bit and
64 bit
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