Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753027AbWLQR1O (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:27:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753022AbWLQR1O (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:27:14 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:45649 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753024AbWLQR1N (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:27:13 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:26:47 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Tobias Diedrich cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andi Kleen , Yinghai Lu , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work In-Reply-To: <20061217131033.GA25999@tomodachi.de> Message-ID: References: <20061216174536.GA2753@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org> <20061216225338.GA2616@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org> <20061216230605.GA2789@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org> <20061216235513.GA2424@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org> <20061217131033.GA25999@tomodachi.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 20 On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > > BTW, I'm also wondering if this secondary Oops is supposed to happen: Well, if the timer doesn't work, then the NMI watchdog will trigger. So it's "supposed" to happen in the sense that yeah, it's kind of expected, but it's really bsically just a secondary issue. If the timer worked properly, you'd never see it. So it's just fallout from the original problem you have, and not interesting in itself. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/