Re: [PATCH] x86/thermal: Fix LVT thermal setup for SMI delivery mode

[Borislav Petkov]

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 *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...

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    Boris.

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