From 1ff0ce38ec8400e7374aec73c54b6abcf4641a2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:14:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Documentation fix for NMI watchdog Sync nmi_watchdog.txt with reality on x86-64. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt b/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt index c1ba4e6f1ac8d..6cad46e8ac2d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt +++ b/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ NOTE: starting with 2.4.2-ac18 the NMI-oopser is disabled by default, 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. + [ feel free to send bug reports, suggestions and patches to Ingo Molnar or the Linux SMP mailing list at ] -- 2.53.0