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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2006-10-21 18:37:02 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-10-21 18:37:02 +0200
commita1bae67243512ca30ceda48e3e24e25b543f8ab7 (patch)
tree9f90a2a4ac04ecd7e23c0049570cd570b6ae37ee /arch
parent581910e2eb952e541b8ca9b5f551d6c124903b61 (diff)
[PATCH] i386: Disable nmi watchdog on all ThinkPads
Even newer Thinkpads have bugs in SMM code that causes hangs with NMI watchdog. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c10
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))