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Commit e77deacb authored by Keith Owens's avatar Keith Owens Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] x86_64: Avoid broadcasting NMI IPIs


On some i386/x86_64 systems, sending an NMI IPI as a broadcast will
reset the system.  This seems to be a BIOS bug which affects machines
where one or more cpus are not under OS control.  It occurs on HT
systems with a version of the OS that is not compiled without HT
support.  It also occurs when a system is booted with max_cpus=n where
2 <= n < cpus known to the BIOS.  The fix is to always send NMI IPI as
a mask instead of as a broadcast.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 704fc59e
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