Andi Kleen (on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:32:56 +0200) wrote:
>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.

These two patches were for both i386 and x86_64, not just for x86_64.

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