On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:07:41AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 12:37 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 05:38:44AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 10:22 +0100, dragoran wrote: > > > > ok now tested on my core 2 duo laptop (also using x86_64). > > > > > > > what does this mean? > > > > I don't see it with 2.6.18 and I have not seen any problems because of > > > > it (yet) > > > > > > > you need to disable nmi_watchdog (by putting nmi_watchdog=0) > > > the code is just broken in recent kernels :( > > > (there's people in my team at Intel working on fixing this) > > > > > > Dave: please disable nmi_watchdog by default in FC x86-64 kernels.. at > > > least until the worst bugs are fixed (but even then it makes little > > > sense to have it enabled anyway) > > > > x86-64 has had it default on for ages though, it's only recently > > that i386 changed to match. It's odd that it's only now causing problems. > > NMI-meets-SMM is a general not fun thing; and even on x86-64 it should > be off (see Ingo's posts for this, it's hitting issues there too). > Also the NMI watchdog code changed recently to be.. well buggy. > (which we're fixing in my team but still as general principle..) I'm about to disappear for the afternoon. If I get back and there's a patch in my inbox it'd be much appreciated (hint, hint ;-) Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
