Re: io_apic & timer_ack fix

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Jon Grimm wrote:

> I 've been running the patch on a 2.4.21 code base.  I note that 
> /proc/interrupts shows NMI interrupts coming in fast and furious, where 
> without it there were none.   I'm not sure what to think of  this.

 This is the NMI watchdog -- an aid to debug lock-ups.  You can control it
with the "nmi_watchdog=" kernel option -- see documentation.  I suppose 
without the timer_ack change the watchdog wouldn't work for some reason 
-- perhaps due to problems with your 8259A core or with the SMM.

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