On Friday 23 June 2006 06:32, Keith Owens wrote: > On some i386/x86_64 systems, sending an NMI IPI as a broadcast will > reset the system. This seems to be a BIOS bug which affects machines > where one or more cpus are not under OS control. It occurs on HT > systems with a version of the OS that is not compiled without HT > support. It also occurs when a system is booted with max_cpus=n where > 2 <= n < cpus known to the BIOS. The fix is to always send NMI IPI as > a mask instead of as a broadcast.
Merged thanks. P.S.: Linux-arch isn't really the right list to cc x86 patches too. I'm sure the other arch maintainers couldn't care less about such x86isms. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
