Re: tickle nmi watchdog whilst doing serial writes.

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun May 15 2005 - 06:42:22 EST


Alexander Nyberg <alexn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> But uhm, it should take at least 5 seconds of no-interrupts before the
> NMI watchdog decides the box is dead so this is kind of weird.

There is a bug somewhere that makes it sometimes expire faster.
I found only one bug so far - touch_nmi_watchdog has a race
(fixed now in -mm*). You can try if it still happens with the next -mm.

Somehow i doubt it is the race though because it should
be too unlikely to trigger this. Could be some other bug
too.

-Andi
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