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Paul Gortmaker a729691b54 x86/reboot: Limit Dell Optiplex 990 quirk to early BIOS versions 
When this platform was relatively new in November 2011, with early BIOS
revisions, a reboot quirk was added in commit 6be30bb7d7 ("x86/reboot:
Blacklist Dell OptiPlex 990 known to require PCI reboot")

However, this quirk (and several others) are open-ended to all BIOS
versions and left no automatic expiry if/when the system BIOS fixed the
issue, meaning that nobody is likely to come along and re-test.

What is really problematic with using PCI reboot as this quirk does, is
that it causes this platform to do a full power down, wait one second,
and then power back on.  This is less than ideal if one is using it for
boot testing and/or bisecting kernels when legacy rotating hard disks
are installed.

It was only by chance that the quirk was noticed in dmesg - and when
disabled it turned out that it wasn't required anymore (BIOS A24), and a
default reboot would work fine without the "harshness" of power cycling the
machine (and disks) down and up like the PCI reboot does.

Doing a bit more research, it seems that the "newest" BIOS for which the
issue was reported[1] was version A06, however Dell[2] seemed to suggest
only up to and including version A05, with the A06 having a large number of
fixes[3] listed.

As is typical with a new platform, the initial BIOS updates come frequently
and then taper off (and in this case, with a revival for CPU CVEs); a
search for O990-A<ver>.exe reveals the following dates:

        A02     16 Mar 2011
        A03     11 May 2011
        A06     14 Sep 2011
        A07     24 Oct 2011
        A10     08 Dec 2011
        A14     06 Sep 2012
        A16     15 Oct 2012
        A18     30 Sep 2013
        A19     23 Sep 2015
        A20     02 Jun 2017
        A23     07 Mar 2018
        A24     21 Aug 2018

While it's overkill to flash and test each of the above, it would seem
likely that the issue was contained within A0x BIOS versions, given the
dates above and the dates of issue reports[4] from distros.  So rather than
just throw out the quirk entirely, limit the scope to just those early BIOS
versions, in case people are still running systems from 2011 with the
original as-shipped early A0x BIOS versions.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1320373471-3942-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de/
[2] https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-ca/000131908/linux-based-operating-systems-stall-upon-reboot-on-optiplex-390-790-990-systems
[3] https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-ca/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=85j10
[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/768039

Fixes: 6be30bb7d7 ("x86/reboot: Blacklist Dell OptiPlex 990 known to require PCI reboot")
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210530162447.996461-4-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
History 2021-08-12 12:06:58 +02:00
arch
block block-5.14-2021-08-07 2021-08-07 10:26:21 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-07-09 11:00:44 -07:00
Documentation x86/reboot: Document how to override DMI platform quirks 2021-08-12 12:06:58 +02:00
drivers Char/Misc driver fixes for 5.14-rc5 2021-08-08 10:41:49 -07:00
fs io_uring-5.14-2021-08-07 2021-08-07 10:34:26 -07:00
include TTY/Serial fixes for 5.14-rc5 2021-08-08 10:23:13 -07:00
init Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects" 2021-07-17 13:27:00 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
kernel A single timer fix: 2021-08-08 11:53:30 -07:00
lib lib/test_string.c: move string selftest in the Runtime Testing menu 2021-07-30 10:14:39 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm/memcg: fix NULL pointer dereference in memcg_slab_free_hook() 2021-07-30 10:14:39 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.14-rc5, including fixes from ipsec. 2021-08-05 12:26:00 -07:00
samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.14 (2nd) 2021-08-07 10:03:02 -07:00
security selinux/stable-5.14 PR 20210805 2021-08-05 12:06:31 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.14-rc5 2021-08-06 10:50:26 -07:00
tools Networking fixes for 5.14-rc5, including fixes from ipsec. 2021-08-05 12:26:00 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Do not leak memory for duplicate debugfs directories 2021-08-04 06:02:03 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap m68k updates for v5.14 2021-06-28 14:01:03 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 5.14-rc4, including fixes from bpf, can, WiFi (mac80211) 2021-07-30 16:01:36 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.14-rc5 2021-08-08 13:49:31 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.