Documentation fix for NMI watchdog

PATCH New Andi Kleen 1 participant 1 message Jul 30, 2004 Documentation

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2004-07-30 17:08 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 Documentation fix for NMI watchdog

Sync nmi_watchdog.txt with reality on x86-64.

Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt +3 -0

diff -urpN -X ../KDIFX linux-2.6.8rc2-mm1/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt linux-2.6.8rc2-mm1-amd64/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ NOTE: starting with 2.4.2-ac18 the NMI-o
 you have to enable it with a boot time parameter.  Prior to 2.4.2-ac18
 the NMI-oopser is enabled unconditionally on x86 SMP boxes.
 
+On x86-64 the NMI oopser is on by default. On 64bit Intel CPUs 
+it uses IO-APIC by default and on AMD it uses local APIC.
+
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   Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> or the Linux SMP mailing
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