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| author | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-11-22 12:06:44 -0600 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-11-22 12:06:44 -0600 |
| commit | 0bd2af46839ad6262d25714a6ec0365db9d6b98f (patch) | |
| tree | dcced72d230d69fd0c5816ac6dd03ab84799a93e /arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c | |
| parent | e138a5d2356729b8752e88520cc1525fae9794ac (diff) | |
| parent | f26b90440cd74c78fe10c9bd5160809704a9627c (diff) | |
Merge ../scsi-rc-fixes-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c index 3e8e3adb0489..eaafe233a5da 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c @@ -219,11 +219,11 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog(void) int cpu; /* Enable NMI watchdog for newer systems. - Actually it should be safe for most systems before 2004 too except - for some IBM systems that corrupt registers when NMI happens - during SMM. Unfortunately we don't have more exact information - on these and use this coarse check. */ - if (nmi_watchdog == NMI_DEFAULT && dmi_get_year(DMI_BIOS_DATE) >= 2004) + Probably safe on most older systems too, but let's be careful. + IBM ThinkPads use INT10 inside SMM and that allows early NMI inside SMM + which hangs the system. Disable watchdog for all thinkpads */ + if (nmi_watchdog == NMI_DEFAULT && dmi_get_year(DMI_BIOS_DATE) >= 2004 && + !dmi_name_in_vendors("ThinkPad")) nmi_watchdog = NMI_LOCAL_APIC; if ((nmi_watchdog == NMI_NONE) || (nmi_watchdog == NMI_DEFAULT)) |