Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:04:27 +0000
From: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nmi_watchdog=2 and P4-HT
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On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 at 05:42 +0000, Philippe Elie wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Actually with nmi_watchdog=2 and a P4 ht box the nmi is reflected
> only on logical processor 0, it's better to get it on both.

oops a line from a next patch is in the patch "deliver nmi to both thread"
patch, apply this incremental patch please else on UP check_nmi_watchdog()
will use 1hz as rate and boot will wait 10 seconds for complementation
of this test.

Phil 


--- linux-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c~	2004-03-04 07:59:22.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c	2004-03-04 07:59:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -347,7 +347,6 @@ static int setup_p4_watchdog(void)
 	wrmsr(MSR_P4_IQ_COUNTER0, -(cpu_khz/nmi_hz*1000), -1);
 	apic_write(APIC_LVTPC, APIC_DM_NMI);
 	wrmsr(MSR_P4_IQ_CCCR0, nmi_p4_cccr_val, 0);
-	nmi_hz = 1;
 	return 1;
 }
 
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