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| author | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | 2006-12-01 09:56:43 +0000 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | 2006-12-01 09:56:43 +0000 |
| commit | bd3c97a7c718bfb9f1e4f31c16c383a5c6f815eb (patch) | |
| tree | 3f56594e813c6f35cbacbdb3e137ba5bfd0b3069 /arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c | |
| parent | 6c33cafc794d07c9254c160789120a0e98c088c9 (diff) | |
| parent | 0215ffb08ce99e2bb59eca114a99499a4d06e704 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-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 3e8e3adb048..eaafe233a5d 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)) |