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Subject: Re: [patch] serial console vs NMI watchdog 
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:53:40 +0100 (CET), 
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>it sure has an alternative. The 'cpus spinning' code calls touch_nmi()
>within the busy loop, the polling code on the control CPU too. This is
>sure more robust and catches lockup bugs in kdb too ...

Works for me.  It even makes kdb simpler.

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