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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Why NMI is not used widely in Linux kernel

"There are some systems where NMIs are broken (e.g. a lot of ThinkPads explode when they get NMI inside SMI). This was one of the reasons the NMI watchdog is not enabled by default anymore." From Andi Kleen.

Posted by caritas at 8:41 PM
Labels: Linux kernel

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