Re: Regression from 2.6.28-rc7: Commit 7cd5b08be3 breaks startup onToshiba Portege R500

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Dec 03 2008 - 17:18:18 EST




On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> commit 7cd5b08be3c489df11b559fef210b81133764ad4
> Author: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Nov 19 19:39:58 2008 +0000
>
> [WATCHDOG] iTCO_wdt : problem with rebooting on new ICH9 based motherboards
>
> Bugzilla #9868: On Intel motherboards with the ICH9 based I/O controllers
> (Like DP35DP and DG33FB) the iTCO timer counts but it doesn't reboot the
> system after the counter expires.
>
> This patch fixes this by moving the enabling & disabling of the TCO_EN bit
> in the SMI_EN register into the start and stop code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> makes CPU fan spin with full speed and causes hald-addon-acpi to take 100% of
> CPU time on Toshiba Portege R500 with openSUSE 11.0 user space. This starts as
> soon as hal starts or thereabouts and never ends, which makes the current
> mainline unusable on that box.

Hmm. I wonder if the bug is this one-liner (it really looks like an
idiotic typo).

Can you test?

Linus
---
drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c
index 26173a2..5b395a4 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ static int iTCO_wdt_stop(void)

/* Bit 13: TCO_EN -> 1 = Enables the TCO logic to generate SMI# */
val32 = inl(SMI_EN);
- val32 &= 0x00002000;
+ val32 |= 0x00002000;
outl(val32, SMI_EN);

/* Set the NO_REBOOT bit to prevent later reboots, just for sure */
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