The patch titled fix "NMI appears to be stuck" has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fix-nmi-appears-to-be-stuck.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fix "NMI appears to be stuck" From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Testing NMI watchdog ... CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck (54->54)! CPU#1: NMI appears to be stuck (0->0)! Keep the PIT/HPET alive when nmi_watchdog = 1 is given on the command line. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/apic.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/apic.c~fix-nmi-appears-to-be-stuck arch/i386/kernel/apic.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c~fix-nmi-appears-to-be-stuck +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c @@ -493,8 +493,15 @@ void __init setup_boot_APIC_clock(void) /* No broadcast on UP ! */ if (num_possible_cpus() == 1) return; - } else - lapic_clockevent.features &= ~CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY; + } else { + /* + * If nmi_watchdog is set to IO_APIC, we need the + * PIT/HPET going. Otherwise register lapic as a dummy + * device. + */ + if (nmi_watchdog != NMI_IO_APIC) + lapic_clockevent.features &= ~CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY; + } /* Setup the lapic or request the broadcast */ setup_APIC_timer(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch bugfix-dont-use-the-tsc-in-sched_clock-if-unstable.patch cleanup-unify-tsc_unstable-and-tsc_disable.patch possible-bugfix-make-dmi_mark_tsc_unstable-call-mark_tsc_unstable.patch git-block.patch log-reason-why-tsc-was-marked-unstable.patch optimize-timespec_trunc.patch sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context.patch sched-dynticks-idle-load-balancing-v3.patch scheduled-removal-of-sa_xxx-interrupt-flags-fixups-3.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html