> >It was causing SMP boxes to crash mysteriously after
> >several hours or days. Quite a lot of them. Nobody
> >was able to explain why, so it was turned off.
>
> This was in the context of 2.4.2-ac21. More of the thread,with no
> conclusive result, can be found at
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.2/0906.html
>
> Was there any resolution? Was the problem real, did it get fixed, and
Some machines corrupt %ecx on the way back from an NMI. Perhaps that was
the factor all the people with problems saw.
regards
john
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