Re: nmi_watchdog fix for x86_64 to be more like i386

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 20:03:12 David Bahi wrote:
> Thanks to tglx and ghaskins for all the help in tracking down a very
> early nmi_watchdog crash on certain x86_64 machines.

The patch is totally bogus. irq 0 doesn't say anything about whether
the current CPU still works or not. You always need some local
interrupt. This basically disables the NMI watchdog for the non boot CPUs.

It's even wrong on i386 -- i wonder how that broken patch
made it in there. I'll remove it there.

-Andi
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