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From: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
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Subject: Re: i8k_smm_func() takes enormous of time to execute
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:28:59 +0100
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On p=E1tek 24. listopadu 2017 12:25:43 CET Pali Roh=E1r wrote:
> On Friday 24 November 2017 12:17:30 Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> > > There are two patches waiting to be tested in
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D195751
> >=20
> > Tested and attached a couple of patches on top of those to the BZ. If
> > disabling fan control is the only approach here, I can confirm that this
> > works.
>=20
> Hi! Please figure out which SMM call (they are identified by eax and ebx
> registers) cause this freeze. So we would now what needs to be
> blacklisted.

Here it goes:

[ 7.191081] dell_smm_hwmon: smm(0x10a3 0x0000) =3D 0x002e (took     1837 us=
ecs)
[ 7.194007] dell_smm_hwmon: smm(0x00a3 0x0001) =3D 0xffff (took      151 us=
ecs)
[ 7.198239] dell_smm_hwmon: smm(0x00a3 0x0000) =3D 0x0002 (took     1411 us=
ecs)
[ 7.199095] dell_smm_hwmon: smm(0x02a3 0x0001) =3D 0xffff (took       71 us=
ecs)
[ 7.700493] dell_smm_hwmon: smm(0x02a3 0x0000) =3D 0x157c (took   488912 us=
ecs)
[ 7.701277] dell_smm_hwmon: smm(0x0025 0X0000) =3D 0xffff (took       71 us=
ecs)

0x02a3 is I8K_SMM_GET_SPEED.