On Saturday 24 June 2006 10:15, Keith Owens wrote:
> 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.

It's still not the right list for that. linux-arch is just to broadcast stuff
interesting to all architecture maintainers, not some kind of x86 list.

BTW  they didn't compile without fixes on x86-64-UP nor
i386-SMP. Please compile test patches better next time. 

-Andi
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