Commit d4c9df20 authored by Jiri Kosina's avatar Jiri Kosina Committed by Borislav Petkov

x86/nmi: Remove the 'strange power saving mode' hint from unknown NMI handler

The

  Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

hint when unknown NMI happens dates back to i386 stone age, and isn't
currently really helpful.

Unknown NMIs are coming for many different reasons (broken firmware,
faulty hardware, ...) and rarely have anything to do with 'strange power
saving mode' (whatever that even is).

Just remove it as it's largerly misleading.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YFH.7.76.2203140924120.24795@cbobk.fhfr.pm
parent 4509d950
......@@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ unknown_nmi_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
pr_emerg("Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason %02x on CPU %d.\n",
reason, smp_processor_id());
pr_emerg("Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?\n");
if (unknown_nmi_panic || panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
nmi_panic(regs, "NMI: Not continuing");
......
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