On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 23:45 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 01 September 2007 22:54:17 Daniel Walker wrote:
> > In the case when an nmi gets stucks the endflag stays equal to zero. This
> > causes the busy looping on other cpus to continue, even tho the nmi test
> > is done.
> >
> > On my machine with out the change below the system would hang right after
> > check_nmi_watchdog(). The change below just sets endflag prior to checking
> > if the test was successful or not.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <[email protected]>
>
> Added thanks. I guess it's .23 material.
putting it in 2.6.23 seems appropriate .. Stephane's patch might be good
for 2.6.23 too ..
Daniel
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