linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - fix incorrect NMI watchdog used by default

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Message-ID:  <g1qvlh$3dv$1@ger.gmane.org>
Date:	Sat, 31 May 2008 08:42:06 +0100
From:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [PATCH] x86: nmi - fix incorrect NMI watchdog used by default

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> The commit
> 
> commit 4b82b277707a39b97271439c475f186f63ec4692
> Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
> Date:   Sat May 24 19:36:35 2008 +0400
> 
> set nmi_watchdog to NMI_IO_APIC as by default. This causes hangs on some
> machines with buggy watchdogs. Fix it - i.e. restore old behaviour.

Thanks for fixing this. Just for the record, the problem also seemed to
depend on the ACPI Video option. Removing that also stopped the problem...
However I can confirm that I don't have a boot hang with next-0530.

-- 
Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/

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