Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386: fix a hang on stuck nmi watchdog

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
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 m

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386: fix a hang on stuck nmi watchdog

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
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 afte

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386: fix a hang on stuck nmi watchdog

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 14:33 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Daniel, > > Thanks for your help tracking down this bug. Maybe we can close > the bugzilla report now. No problem , and thanks for taking the time to dig into it .. I'll close the bugzilla report. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386: fix a hang on stuck nmi watchdog

2007-09-01 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, Thanks for your help tracking down this bug. Maybe we can close the bugzilla report now. On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:54:17PM -0700, 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