Re: NMI appears to be stuck! (2.4.22-rc2 on dual Athlon)

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> > nmi_watchdog=2 will work on the majority of i686+ (performance 
> > counters with NMI delivery mode) boxes and you can check whether it's 
> > enabled by doing cat /proc/interrupts and watching if the NMI line ticks 
> > at a decent rate. nmi_watchdog=1 tends to be harder for hardware 
> > manufacturers to get right (for some reason or other).
> 
> Is it possible to try both at boot time and pick the one which works?

I believe we currently already do that if you do nmi_watchdog=2
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