x86 ACPI: Blacklist two HP machines with buggy BIOSes
There is a bug in the BIOSes of some HP boxes with AMD Turions which connects IO-APIC pins with ACPI thermal trip points in such a way that if the state of the IO-APIC is not as expected by the (buggy) BIOS, the thermal trip points are set to insanely low values (usually all of them become 16 degrees Celsius). As a result, thermal throttling kicks in and knock the system down to its shoes. Unfortunately some of the recent IO-APIC changes made the bug show up. To prevent this from happening, blacklist machines that are known to be affected (nx6115 and 6715b in this particular case). This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11516 listed as a regression from 2.6.26. On my box it was caused by: commit 691874fa Author: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Date: Tue May 27 21:19:51 2008 +0100 x86: I/O APIC: timer through 8259A second-chance Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> and the whole story is described in this (huge) thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121358440508410&w=4 Matthew Garrett told us about that happening on the nx6125: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121396307411930&w=4 and then Maciej analysed the breakage on the basis of a DSDT from the nx6325: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121401068718826&w=4 As far as the Dmitry's and Jason's boxes are concerned, I recognized the symptoms and asked them to verify that the blacklisting helped. It appears that the buggy BIOS code has been copy-pasted to the entire range of machines, for no good reason. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Tested-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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