Re: [2.3.99pre3] NMIs and Makefiles

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 14:55:02 EST


On Fri, Mar 24 2000, Alex Buell wrote:
> I'm getting a lot of NMI interrupts - didn't happen with 2.2.x kernels.
>
> tahallah[root]:/var/log # cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 22722 11028 IO-APIC-edge timer
> 1: 1546 492 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
> 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
> 12: 747 81 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 1090 1240 IO-APIC-edge ide0
> 15: 0 2 IO-APIC-edge ide1
> NMI: 33720 33720
> LOC: 33640 33338
> ERR: 0
>
> Doesn't seem to be fatal though, but I remember getting this with the
> early 2.1.x kernels before being fixed for 2.2.x.

This is the nmi watchdog, if you boot with nmi_watchdog=0 then I get
you won't be seeing any NMI interrupts. It's nice to have, though,
just in case you do run into a hang.

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