Re: why so many NMIs??? (2.3.21)

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 19:54:27 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Here is what I just noticed:
>
> NMI: 77932 77932
> LOC: 77487 77632
> ERR: 0

> Why so many NMIs? Should be 0, I would have thought...

this is intentional - the NMI watchdog (added in 2.3.20) generates these
NMIs. We might in the future only count 'true' NMIs to not confuse people
- right now this is a good debugging check to ensure that the NMI watchdog
is really running. Check out Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt for more info.

-- mingo

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