From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762679AbYBHTWo (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:22:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753773AbYBHTWe (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:22:34 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.229]:29480 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752258AbYBHTWc (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:22:32 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=x8qrML19UZaL6sUa8FnqCCk/AKB1LYx9haMlAog/bpoHfES1td2rgX3RDlL9UgA1lo4pyikM3Q7smEO1s47QmcRzsO+az8QZJIUeL6I0bOsmOkP1C6RwUQesaIkOFcx55RkeWqIs3hdbc5njE0tC0chLkAQaN5wMPPVqfBX5fEM= Message-ID: <6d4bc9fc0802081122g5b9a9ee7lc85d6f18e0dee74@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:22:25 +0100 From: "Maarten Maathuis" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [x86_64] Cannot get the NMI watchdog to work MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Please CC me when replying. Kernel is a 2.6.24-rt1. Summary: - 0 NMI interrupts occur by default (this remains true for any situation encountered). - nmi_watchdog=1 disables lapic for some reason. - I have no hpet it seems, hpet=force doesn't do any good (the oposite actually). - I never get any reference of hpet in my dmesg. - oprofile module is not loaded. - My interrupts seem to have IO-APIC-* mode. - My chipset is a nvidia CK804. Can anyone shed some light on what is needed to get a working NMI watchdog? Sincerely, Maarten Maathuis.