Re: [PATCH 0/2] Two semi-related perf throttling fixes

From: Andi Kleen

Date: Wed Apr 01 2026 - 04:14:11 EST


Calvin Owens <calvin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> In the course of investigating [1], I set out to understand why this
> sequence of messages is printed every boot, even when nobody is using
> perf at all:

I don't think i've ever seen that just from the NMI watchdog. I wonder
what is different on your machines. And of course the PMU based NMI
watchdog is on the way out.

But the fixes make sense to me.

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxx>