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x86/nmi: Remove the 'strange power saving mode' hint from unknown NMI handler
authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:25:18 +0000 (09:25 +0100)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 10:02:41 +0000 (11:02 +0100)
commit7531689a1a05c471819256d3a5fe5468ea7105c2
treede03f15c0cc459e0a9bb370c402900121b05e738
parent2e5606cc50fe034398a9084452674e1b70c26350
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: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YFH.7.76.2203140924120.24795@cbobk.fhfr.pm
arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c