On Thu, May 27 2021 at 20:54, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 01:49:42PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> Also if disabling this entry is causing the BIOS/SMM gunk to go south, then >> disabling CONFIG_X86_THERMAL_VECTOR should have the same effect. > > Well, I believe the latter was practically impossible: > > config X86_THERMAL_VECTOR > def_bool y > depends on X86 && CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_LOCAL_APIC So you could disable CPU_SUP_INTEL ... Should still boot with reduced functionality. > so *if* the machine was sporting thermal SMI, then it very much needed > that code in intel_init_thermal() to unstuck the cores. At least it > looks that way... What a mess...
