After reboot there is a message "NMI watchdog: Shutting down hard lockup detector on all cpus" What does this mean?

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Issue

  • After reboot I see the following messages:
Jan 31 18:16:19 node1 kernel: NMI watchdog: disabled (cpu0): hardware events not enabled
Jan 31 18:16:19 node1 kernel: NMI watchdog: Shutting down hard lockup detector on all cpus

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Possibly a virtual machine

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