Re: [PATCH] Inhibit machine from asserting an NMI when doing Alt-SysRq-M operation.

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Mar 28 2007 - 15:09:38 EST


On Tuesday 27 March 2007 15:45, you wrote:
> This patch touches the NMI watchdog every MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
> to inhibit the machine from triggering an NMI while the CPUs
> are locked. This situation is happening on boxes with more
> than 64CPUs and 128GB of RAM when Alt-SysRq-m is performed.
>
> It has been succesfully tested for regression on uni, 2, 4, 8
> 32, and 64 CPU boxes with various memory configuration.

Applied thanks

-Andi
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