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.
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