Re: nmi watchdog failure on dual Athlon box

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Joerg Sommrey wrote:

> |--- lockupcli.c
> |
> |main ()
> |{
> |	iopl(3);
> |	for (;;) asm("cli");
> |}
> 
> Does this mean there is a good reason for further investigations on why
> the IO-APIC NMI watchdog doesn't work? Until now I thought it would
> be ok as long as the local APIC NMI watchdog is set up.

 Since this program does busy looping, the local APIC NMI watchdog should
trigger indeed.  It's "cli; hlt" that causes a problem with this watchdog.  
Something wrong is happening in your system, indeed.

  Maciej
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