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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c index 8e4ed930ce6..6e5085d5d2f 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include <linux/sysdev.h> #include <linux/sysctl.h> #include <linux/percpu.h> +#include <linux/dmi.h> #include <asm/smp.h> #include <asm/nmi.h> @@ -204,6 +205,14 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog(void) unsigned int *prev_nmi_count; 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) + nmi_watchdog = NMI_LOCAL_APIC; + if ((nmi_watchdog == NMI_NONE) || (nmi_watchdog == NMI_DEFAULT)) return 0; |