On Saturday 01 September 2007 22:54:17 Daniel Walker wrote:
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> In the case when an nmi gets stucks the endflag stays equal to zero. This
> causes the busy looping on other cpus to continue, even tho the nmi test
> is done.
> 
> On my machine with out the change below the system would hang right after
> check_nmi_watchdog(). The change below just sets endflag prior to checking
> if the test was successful or not.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>

Added thanks. I guess it's .23 material.

-Andi

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