From: Andi Kleen Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:52:27 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [PATCH] i386: Enable NMI watchdog by default X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~1077^2~203 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1de84979dfc527c422abf63f27beabe43892989b;p=pandora-kernel.git [PATCH] i386: Enable NMI watchdog by default I've had good experiences with having this on by default on x86-64. It turns nasty hangs into easier to debug oopses. Enable the local APIC wdog by default for systems newer than 2004. This comes from a strange compromise: according to arjan the reason it was off by default was some old IBM systems that corrupted registered when NMI happened in SMI. Can't remember more specific, but >= 2004 should avoid these. It's probably overly broad because most older systems should be ok (and the really old systems won't be supported by the local apic watchdog anyways) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- Reading git-diff-tree failed