linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] i386: Fix two more NMI watchdog bugs

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Message-ID: <20070608204324.GA25392@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 8 Jun 2007 22:43:25 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@....de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@...inf.tu-dresden.de>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ak@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] i386: Fix two more NMI watchdog bugs


* Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@....de> wrote:

> Anyway, both are bugs and should be fixed. Maybe we're even lucky and 
> it fixes your hang. *fingers crossed*

just to make it clear: the NMI watchdog was working perfectly fine on 
that box (in v2.6.21 and in dozens of kernel releases before that, for 
multiple years) before Andi's cleanup patch. So lets find that bug first 
or revert the cleanups.

	Ingo
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