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@@ -1124,11 +1124,15 @@ debugging information is displayed on console.
NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for example.
If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch.
-[NOTE]
- This function and oprofile share a NMI callback. Therefore this function
- cannot be enabled when oprofile is activated.
- And NMI watchdog will be disabled when the value in this file is set to
- non-zero.
+nmi_watchdog
+------------
+
+Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is non-zero
+the NMI watchdog is enabled and will continuously test all online cpus to
+determine whether or not they are still functioning properly.
+
+Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI
+watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize.
2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem