Andi/Linus Cc:-ed - these NMI watchdog changes came over the x86_64
tree. I suspect this patch:
commit 09198e68501a7e34737cd9264d266f42429abcdc
Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Wed May 2 19:27:20 2007 +0200
[PATCH] i386: Clean up NMI watchdog code
Andi - just boot with nmi_watchdog=2 on a dual-core Athlon64 CPU.
Ingo
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