Re: [PATCH RESEND v2] x86: warn on native_io_delay() before DMI scan

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 09:25:58PM +0200, Mateusz Jończyk wrote:
> Writing to IO port 0x80 in native_io_delay() causes system lockups on
> some laptops. This is handled by io_delay_init(), which scans DMI info
> and changes io_delay_type on these laptops.
> 
> Therefore, calling native_io_delay() / outb_p() / inb_p() / etc. before
> io_delay_init() may cause problems there and may constitute a kernel
> bug. Warn if this happens.

When/how does this happen?

io_delay_init() gets called pretty early in setup_arch()...

Thx.

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    Boris.

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