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Julian Anastasov committed 3e80acd1af4
ACPICA: Fix regression in FADT revision checks commit 64b3db22c04586997ab4be46dd5a5b99f8a2d390 (2.6.39), "Remove use of unreliable FADT revision field" causes regression for old P4 systems because now cst_control and other fields are not reset to 0. The effect is that acpi_processor_power_init will notice cst_control != 0 and a write to CST_CNT register is performed that should not happen. As result, the system oopses after the "No _CST, giving up" message, sometimes in acpi_ns_internalize_name, sometimes in acpi_ns_get_type, usually at random places. May be during migration to CPU 1 in acpi_processor_get_throttling. Every one of these settings help to avoid this problem: - acpi=off - processor.nocst=1 - maxcpus=1 The fix is to update acpi_gbl_FADT.header.length after the original value is used to check for old revisions. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42700 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727865 Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Acked-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>