linux/arch/i386
Jack F Vogel 67701ae976 [PATCH] check nmi watchdog is broken
A bug against an xSeries system showed up recently noting that the
check_nmi_watchdog() test was failing.

I have been investigating it and discovered in both i386 and x86_64 the
recent change to the routine to use the cpu_callin_map has uncovered a
problem.  Prior to that change, on an SMP box, the test was trivally
passing because all cpu's were found to not yet be online, but now with the
callin_map they are discovered, it goes on to test the counter and they
have not yet begun to increment, so it announces a CPU is stuck and bails
out.

On all the systems I have access to test, the announcement of failure is
also bougs...  by the time you can login and check /proc/interrupts, the
NMI count is happily incrementing on all CPUs.  Its just that the test is
being done too early.

I have tried moving the call to the test around a bit, and it was always
too early.  I finally hit on this proposed solution, it delays the routine
via a late_initcall(), seems like the right solution to me.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:48 -07:00
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boot Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
crypto Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
kernel [PATCH] check nmi watchdog is broken 2005-05-01 08:58:48 -07:00
lib Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mach-default Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mach-es7000 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mach-generic Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mach-visws Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mach-voyager [PATCH] reparent_to_init cleanup 2005-04-16 15:26:01 -07:00
math-emu Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mm [PATCH] freepgt: hugetlb area is clean 2005-04-19 13:29:18 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] pm_message_t: more fixes in common and i386 2005-04-16 15:25:24 -07:00
pci [PATCH] irq and pci_ids: patch for Intel ESB2 2005-04-16 15:24:41 -07:00
power Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
defconfig Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] kbuild/i386: re-introduce dependency on vmlinux for install target, and add kernel_install 2005-04-30 16:51:42 -07:00