Re: BUG: High resolution timer/dynticks bug

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2008-03-04 12:14:38, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Just turn off NMI watchdog? Pulling the power cable causes the SMM trap, 
> > which takes _long_ to execute, potentially tickling NMI watchdog?
> 
> By _long_ you mean leaving the system for 5 seconds with irqs disabled? 

Well, I've seen >500msec. 5sec is a bit much, but... BIOS writers are
crazy, right?

							Pavel

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