Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:52:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
To: Joerg Sommrey <jo@sommrey.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NMI watchdog in 2.6.3-mm4/2.6.4-mm1
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Joerg Sommrey wrote:

> > >With 2.6.4-mm1 the NMI watchdog is again not functional in my box. Any
> > >ideas?

I think all we did was drop the NMI frequency in -mm1, but that would be
for nmi_watchdog=2

> nmi_watchdog=2 has never worked for me. Is this really supposed to work
> on a SMP machine? In that case there isn't even a message
> about activating the watchdog, but I get a nmi-count in /proc/interrupts.

It is activated, it's just not verbal about it, nmi_watchdog=1 is more
verbose because there are a number of interrupt delivery modes we try
before giving up.

> I almost gave up, until I found the watchdog working in 2.6.3-mm4.
> See attached files for further information.

I think the pending problem then is nmi_watchdog=1 working erratically.
Does 2.6.3 work for you?
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