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Bug#599368: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#599368: NMI watchdog failed to create perf event on cpu0: ffffffa1)



>> since the upgrade from rc5 to rc6, I get the following error message on
>> > the console during boot:
>> > NMI watchdog failed to create perf event on cpu0: ffffffa1
> [...]
> 
> This error comes from the new code for hard lockup detection, which
> relies on using a CPU performance counter to trigger an NMI.  The system
> you're using apparently doesn't have a suitable performance counter;
> this is not a bug.

If this just an informative message and not an error, then this message should
not be logged to the console.

Michael


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