Re: [PATCH] Inhibit machine from asserting an NMI when doing Alt-SysRq-M operation.

2007-03-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 15:45, you wrote: > This patch touches the NMI watchdog every MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES > to inhibit the machine from triggering an NMI while the CPUs > are locked. This situation is happening on boxes with more > than 64CPUs and 128GB of RAM when Alt-SysRq-m is performed. > > I

[PATCH] Inhibit machine from asserting an NMI when doing Alt-SysRq-M operation.

2007-03-27 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
This patch touches the NMI watchdog every MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES to inhibit the machine from triggering an NMI while the CPUs are locked. This situation is happening on boxes with more than 64CPUs and 128GB of RAM when Alt-SysRq-m is performed. It has been succesfully tested for regression on uni, 2,