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Message-ID: <20080304150651.GB5310@ucw.cz>
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

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