Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:07:40 +0100 | From | John Levon <> | Subject | Re: NMI watchdog stability |
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:55:13PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> >It was causing SMP boxes to crash mysteriously after > >several hours or days. Quite a lot of them. Nobody > >was able to explain why, so it was turned off. > > This was in the context of 2.4.2-ac21. More of the thread,with no > conclusive result, can be found at > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.2/0906.html > > Was there any resolution? Was the problem real, did it get fixed, and
Some machines corrupt %ecx on the way back from an NMI. Perhaps that was the factor all the people with problems saw.
regards john
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