Re: 2.6.14-rc5-rt6 -- False NMI lockup detects

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 14:37:40 EST


On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:24 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Isn't the jiffy tick implemented with the PIT when possible?

Yes, PIT is the tick event source.

> So the apic is only used when a timer is needed.

And it might be used for profiling, which is also tick bound in the hrt
case at the moment.

> Also note that this "lockup"
> happens on boot up while things are being initialized, so not many
> things may be using the timer.

Can you send me a log of the boot messages please ?

tglx


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