[arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Marti Raudsepp wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Timer Stats Version: v0.2
>> Sample period: 0.000 s
>> 0 total events
>
> Huh? Something's broken with your /proc/timer_stats. Either that, or
> some application is polling the file at an insane rate. Were you
> running powertop in the background at this time?

No I wasn't running anything in the background, really stange indeed...

>
> Nothing suspicious in your /proc/interrupts -- I assume the
> 'processor' module was still loaded at the time you took these
> samples?

right

>
>> I have already compiled a minimal 2.6.31 and a 2.6.32 kernel and the problem
>> seems to be a regression introduced in the former. So I'm trying to find
>> time for a git bisection... Any other ideas?
>
> You can contact people responsible for the 'processor' module. Linux
> get_maintainer.pl lists these emails for
> drivers/acpi/processor_core.c:
>
> Len Brown <lenb at kernel.org>
> Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas at hp.com>
> Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org>
> Alex Chiang <achiang at hp.com>
> linux-acpi at vger.kernel.org
> linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
>
> (Yeah, feel free to send an email to all recipients, that's how people
> usually communicate on LKML)

Thanks for the tips, they are very useful!


Dimitris


>
> Marti
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