Re: [PATCH] Use BIOS reboot on Toshiba Portege 4000

[Avi Kivity]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] Use BIOS reboot on Toshiba Portege 4000
> >
> > From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > After commit c7ffa6c26277b403920e2255d10df849bd613380 which defaults
> > to reboot via ACPI keyboard is dead on Toshiba Portege 4000 upon reboot.
> > Power off is required to revive it again. Add DMI entry to force BIOS
> > reboot method as it was before.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxx>
> >     
>
> Avi, i expect more boxes to be affected by this bug, and the DMI 
> solution just does not scale.
>
> So could we please disable VMX from the emergency-shutdown code 
> instead of twiddling with the reboot method?
>
> Something like this might work as well: iff VMX is enabled, we just do 
> smp_send_stop() (instead of skipping it) which should take care of 
> this.
>   

There is already some code being worked on for kdump (which suffers from 
the same symptoms), only kdump uses NMI IPIs for increased stopping 
power.  Eduardo, can you take a look at porting it to emergency reboot?

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