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Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:37:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
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Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on Phenom with Debian 2.6.24-4
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> FYI with Peter off-list help we found a way to make the ASUS M2A-VM with
> 1604 BIOS stable under my stress test: we just needed nmi_watchdog=1 in
> the kernel boot options (no other boot option necessary).

hmm, nmi_watchdog=1 disables the local apic timer. Can you add
"noapictimer" to the kernel command line instead ?

Thanks,
	tglx